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"Madam President, this is my last speech of the afternoon. With apologies to the High Representative, since the detail of this debate is important, I just want to say in one minute that we are on the verge of an historic achievement. We have had the EU Code of Conduct on arms exports stopping irresponsible transfers of arms to those who would use them for oppression or human rights abuse. We now have the chance to enshrine this in a global convention and prevent what are estimated to be half a million deaths each year.
Yes, we must be self-critical about bad decisions in the past, including the supply of arms from the European Union that were subsequently used against unarmed protestors, for example, in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen. But we should also celebrate the leadership given from Europe for this treaty: the European Parliament’s own leading role in consistently calling for a legally binding treaty; that EU countries have been unanimous in their agreement of Amnesty International’s rigorous golden rule within the treaty text; and I hope you do not mind if I also draw attention to the former British Labour foreign secretaries, the late Robin Cook and subsequently David Miliband, for their personal contribution to what I end by repeating will be an historic achievement."@en1
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