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dcterms:Date	"2014-02-04"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Richard Howitt2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, over 10 years ago in response to the Amnesty International campaign, I proposed a successful amendment in the British Labour Party’s National Policy Forum to support an arms trade treaty, and having campaigned for it ever since, and with our then UK Government playing a leading role, I am honoured to join my colleague David Martin in being present tonight as the European Parliament gives it assent to the historic Treaty which resulted. Joining the Landmine Ban and the Convention on Cluster Munitions we have proved that it is possible for the world to regulate the international arms trade. This Treaty is a major step which will restrict the flow of arms to those who would use them to violate human rights. I would say to those who said Europe should not develop a code of conduct in arms sales because we can never use it to secure a global agreement that they have been proved wrong. Now, Europe is taking a major step towards the Treaty entering into force this very year. We are committing ourselves to helping third countries to develop control systems so that they can ratify it too, and I am very sorry that the British Conservatives have opposed this initiative tonight. I am sorry, too, that at 3 a.m. last Saturday morning the US Senate voted against ratifying the Treaty in a budget amendment. The right to bear arms should never outweigh the right of innocent victims to be protected from their use, so speaking at 10.20 p.m. in this European Parliament I am confident that we in Europe will do the right thing."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Richard Howitt (S&D ). -"1
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