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"Madam President, in the resolution we will be voting on tomorrow, the European Parliament stresses that ‘political accountability’ and ‘legally binding’ are key terms if the arms trade treaty is to protect humanity from a trade that feeds conflicts in the most vulnerable regions of the world. The European Union and its Member States should do more to support the UN action plan against the illegal trade in small and light arms, so it must strategically commit to a robust arms trade treaty that prevents the continued diversion of legally exported, imported or sold arms and military technologies into overthrowing democratic governments, exploiting peoples and fostering war. Transparency in the dissemination of all information on the export, import and transfer of arms and military technologies is crucial if governments are not to continue being accomplices of the dealers of death who traffic arms. An effective arms trade treaty must be binding on the State parties, using red lines and mechanisms for monitoring compliance.
As Lady Ashton said, the European Union has to speak with one voice in next July’s negotiations, doing everything to ensure that the bar is not set lower than its own position on arms exports and that the treaty will be founded on international human rights law and international humanitarian law."@en1
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