Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-06-12-Speech-2-395-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-06-12"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120612.19.2-395-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-06-12-Speech-2-396-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Anneli Jäätteenmäki2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Suomen Keskusta (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; ALDE (2012-01-27--2014-06-30)3 substitute; SEDE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2013-04-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; CRIM (2012-03-28--2013-10-23)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, at present, there are no rules on the arms trade that apply globally. Hopefully, there will be after the conference in New York in July. It is important to achieve a comprehensive treaty, to which not only the Member States of the European Union, but also China, India, the United States and Russia are party. The EU countries now have common rules for the trade in arms with third countries, but that is not enough. I wish to raise a couple of key issues. Firstly, comprehensiveness is important, but alongside it I want to stress the importance of supervision. We need to have an effective, workable and binding system of supervision that also contains penalty clauses. Without transparency and effective supervision, the treaty threatens to be mere empty words. This has to be taken seriously – the idea that supervision should function successfully – and the United Nations is the best and most reliable body for that. Secondly, I would like to mention the matter of respect for human rights and international law. This might seem odd, because, after all, war does not really concern itself with human rights, but I would nevertheless hope that the parties to this treaty will undertake to ensure that weapons are not supplied to countries and regions where there is a risk that they will be used for purposes of genocide or for some other truly appalling acts of a similar nature. War in itself is obviously appalling. Finally, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Baroness Ashton for her excellent levels of cooperation and for having taken this issue effectively forward, although it is of course now that the work is only just starting. I wish you every success."@en1
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