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"Madam President, I have two questions to ask Baroness Ashton as the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
Firstly, I do not understand what the EU role is in this United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. Here is a very welcome agreement concluded by the intra-governmental United Nations with 193 nation states involved – only Zimbabwe voted against it – so nation states and the UN are at one. Why, then, do we need a supranational trespasser, in the form of the EU, to muscle in on the action?
A second related question is what role does the European Defence Agency (EDA) have, given its arms export control policy? At least EDA, again, is international, not supranational. But why did it allegedly take you from 1 December 2009, when you were appointed as Head of the EDA, to January 2012 – two years – to actually visit its premises? It is only 15 minutes from your Brussels office. Is it actually so low priority?"@en1
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