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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8093
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/light weapons

EP calls for international instrument for regulating activities of arms brokers

Strasbourg, 16/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - By adopting a resolution on Thursday on light weapons, the European Parliament urged the Presidency of the EU Council to set up a "contact group bringing together several States, responsible for "preparing the ground for negotiations over an international, legally binding instrument aimed at regulating the activities of arms brokers". Negotiations over such an instrument should be concluded before the Conference on Light Weapons scheduled for 2006,...

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