Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-14-Speech-3-251"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-06-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Small arms (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060614.18.3-251"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-06-14-Speech-3-2522
lpv:speaker	lp:Richard Howitt2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, with 80 million new guns manufactured each year, and one person killed by a gun every minute, the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons fuels conflict, crime and terrorism across the globe. Five years after the UN programme of action was agreed, the forthcoming review conference must not just review: it must act. It should recognise key gaps, such as the transfer of small arms to non-state actors and, ultimately, ways of reducing the demand for small arms. It should address controls for licensed production deals, like that adopted for Austrian Steyr rifles in Malaysia. As Mr Winkler says, Europe can offer leadership in this debate, demonstrating the effectiveness of our code of conduct on arms sales. I hope the Council will offer new commitments to extend financial support to projects aimed at limiting small arms proliferation and their use – currently just EUR 2 million in the CFSP budget – and by building on the proposals for an EU strategy for security sector reform, started under last year’s UK Presidency of the EU and, indeed, at the Austrian Presidency conference on the western Balkans. Last year European Member States, as part of the UN, agreed a tracing instrument for small arms that was neither comprehensive – covering guns, not bullets – nor legally binding. This year EU representatives must show that we have the political will to go further to promote the proposal already endorsed by the Council and Parliament for a legally binding international arms trade treaty, and to ensure, both at the review conference this July and at the UN First Committee in October, a resolution to set up a working group to begin to make it happen."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; DROI (2004-09-01--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3 unknown; Labour Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; EMPL (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Richard Howitt (PSE ). –"1

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