France Spain United States and other support to the EU ban on arms sales to China pressure
Date:2011-09-01Author:adminCategory:China militaryComment:0
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January 28 issue of “Global Times” reported that “European observation”, Agence France-Presse and other Western media broke the news that Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos 26 that Spain “is weighing the pros and cons of the arms embargo”, Spain, France and some other EU countries support the abolition of the ban. Moratinos said: “We are aware of China in the world and to improve access to the new role of relations with China, to ensure the best possible benefits of dialogue.”
Spain January 1, 2010 date as the EU’s rotating presidency for six months. Earlier, the media broke the news that the Spanish Ambassador to China Villa has said that Spain hopes his term of office to cancel the embargo. But Villa in the 26th start of the EU’s rotating presidency press conference, denied making the above-mentioned position. Vera said that the Spanish government only want to partner with other countries on the abolition of the EU arms embargo on the possibility of “exchange of views.” Head of EU Mission in China also Awori new words carefully, said, “This is not a simple issue, as defense-related, this is a sensitive issue.”
German Protestant news agency that the lifting of the arms embargo that has an impact on relations between the EU on the agenda. 26 Agence France-Presse, said the controversy in the European Union more and more intense. Favor of lifting the ban on the EU member states that have lost arms exports huge business opportunities, but the United States to protect Taiwan’s security grounds, to keep the pressure on the EU to maintain arms embargo on mainland China. “European Watch” quoted diplomatic sources as saying that unless the co-operation with the United States, or to lift the ban will not be so easy. (Newspaper in Britain, Germany Aoki special correspondent discipline the reporter Liu Yang Twins)
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