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"Madam President, the events in North Africa have once again shown that the EU’s common foreign policy is behind the times and ineffective. The EU’s calls for a respect for human rights and democracy mainly look like a delusional Don Quixote in rusty armour battling with windmills, when compared to the lucrative arms trade engaged in by the Member States of the EU. Seven of the world’s ten biggest sellers of weapons are EU countries, EU Member States, and weapons have been sold to Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain and Yemen. Baroness Ashton, might it be time to make a ban on the export of weapons a priority for EU foreign policy? The coordination of 27 different foreign and security policies is not the easiest of tasks, and you cannot blame the captain alone for the shipwreck. Member States have a right to their own foreign policy. We could, however, expect one or two things from the skipper, namely, initiative and ideas, and we are still waiting."@en1
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