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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8609

18 December 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/china
Antonione admits opinions differ within EU on lifting arms embargo (to be discussed by next General Affairs Council)

Strasbourg, 17/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - Speaking to the European Parliament on Wednesday, the Council's President-in-Office, Roberto Antonione, said China seizes every opportunity to inform his EU interlocutors that the arms embargo upon it since the 1989 Tien an Men square repression is increasingly "anachronistic". Recently China made lifting the embargo one of the "short and medium term" priorities in its relations with the EU, the Italian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs said. He...

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