Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-11-16-Speech-2-030"
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"en.20041116.7.2-030"2
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"Mr President, I would like first of all to welcome the progress made with regard to the Code of Conduct on Arms Exports, but it is still a sad fact that 500 000 people die each year as a result of the use of small arms and light weapons. These are, in my view, the real weapons of mass destruction in the world today.
It is extraordinary that while we know that 20% of the weapons that the United States sells fall into the wrong hands, we have no statistics whatsoever on the quantity of arms exports from the European Union that fall into the wrong hands. We have no idea of the extent to which we are responsible for the 500 000 deaths resulting from the use, and indeed misuse, of small arms exports.
On the question of China, it is neither wise nor indeed feasible to believe that we can ignore or isolate China. Nevertheless, it is important that we maintain pressure on the Chinese Government to improve the political and human rights situation in China. It is therefore necessary to maintain the embargo and indeed to tie it in with making our own Code of Conduct on Arms Exports legally binding."@en1
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