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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7882

17 January 2001
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/balkans syndrome
All political groups are favourable towards in-depth investigation, but not toward moratorium on depleted uranium arms

Strasbourg, 16/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - On the eve of the plenary debate, the President of the political groups were questioned, during their traditional Tuesday press conference, on the stance that will be adopted by their group with regards to the "Balkans syndrome". All of them underlined the need for an in-depth investigation, but only the Green/ALE and GUE/NGL groups are openly in favour of a moratorium or even a ban on depleted uranium arms.

The Belgian Green Paul Lannoye insisted n...

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