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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8631

27 January 2004
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/china
Watson condemns proposals to lift arms embargo

Brussels, 26/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - It is "outrageous" that Paris is "suggesting lifting the European arms embargo against a Communist dictatorship that continues to abuse human rights" just as the President Hu Jintao begins a three day visit to France, the President of the Liberal Group at the European Parliament, Graham Watson, said with indignation (see p.4). The embargo had been imposed after the brutal repression at Tienanmen Square in 1989, the MEP recalls, asking: "Do European...

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