Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-11-16-Speech-3-304"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-11-16"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20051116.21.3-304"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-11-16-Speech-3-3052
lpv:speaker	lp:Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Japan (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 vice-chair; SEDE (2004-09-01--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK (2004-07-20--2008-05-28)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; UEN (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; DEVE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Commissioner, representatives of the Council and the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, first I would like to thank Raül Romeva i Rueda, the rapporteur, for the work he has done in evaluating the European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports. Since I was entrusted with the task of drafting the opinion of the Committee on Development on this issue, I would like to thank the rapporteur for the fact that we were able to agree on the inclusion in the report of the aspects which the Committee on Development considered most important. On behalf of the Committee on Development I would like to express my conviction that the export of arms to poor, conflict-ridden states cannot be tolerated, since it fosters poverty and violations of human rights. It is paradoxical for governments to talk about combating poverty and strengthening the rule of law, but at the same time to allow SALW trade to repressive regimes and states experiencing extreme military conflicts. It has to be said that the impact of SALW trade is particularly detrimental for development policy in the Cotonou Agreement states. We can see a similar view in the 2000 report. For this reason, the Committee on Development calls on the Council and the Commission to formulate SALW guidelines precisely for developing countries; emphasises the need for disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration measures; repeats the need to draw up a package of new post-embargo instruments, and calls on the European Union Member States, the Council and the Commission to encourage the African Union and Africa’s regional bodies and to strengthen the arms control export requirements regionally and nationally in accordance with the standards of the European Union’s code. The need to make the code of conduct on arms exports legally binding is emphasised. The Committee on Development would also like to draw attention to the need for a trade agreement on weapons to be in an internationally legally binding form. I hope that the opinion of the Committee on Development, which has been put forward for the first time, is an important contribution and reaffirms the truth that security is the primary precondition for development."@en1

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