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"Mr President, that the non-proliferation policy is in crisis is not a matter of doubt, and of disarmament policy scarcely anything is now to be heard. The review conference in May offers an opportunity to achieve a breakthrough, one that will demand a constructive approach on the part of all, including the ‘permanent five’ and hence also of China, which increasingly presents itself as the hegemonic power in its region. China is resurgent, and only one country – North Korea – ignores it and its goal of a Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons. North Korea is working on warheads and rockets to carry them, it is hampering the six-party talks and destabilising the entire region. The reason for this is that North Korea is a dictatorship desperately hanging on to power.
This is a threat to our democratic friends in the region, to South Korea and Taiwan, particularly also to Japan and the USA, which together guarantee these countries’ security. The efforts on our part that they deserve must have three objectives: we must strengthen the non-proliferation treaty; the European Union must take part in the six-party talks; the arms embargo on China must remain in place; and we must promote democracy throughout the world. I also take the view that we should be having this debate in Brussels rather than in Strasbourg."@en1
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