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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8832

23 November 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/china
No decision on embargo on arms sales but EU is ready to send "positive signal" 8 December

Brussels, 22/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - Bernard Bot declared on Monday that the EU is still not ready to lift the arms embargo to China before the summit on 8 December in The Hague but it is seeking to send a "positive signal" at this event according to which the embargo could be lifted as soon as the conditions it has posed are met. He added that they were sticking to the conditions that had to be fulfilled before any decision, notably on human rights, and the strengthening of the EU' code...

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