Call to lift EU weapons ban.EUROPE'S top trade negotiator Peter Mandelson has called for the 15 year-old arms embargo An arms embargo is an embargo that applies to weaponry. It may also include "dual use" items. An arms embargo may serve one or more purposes:
The EU trade commissioner said he discussed the issue during two days of meetings with Vice Premier Wu Yi and Commerce Minister Bo Xilai in Beijing. 'To treat China as some sort of pariah in maintaining this arms ban is, in the view of Europe's member states, no longer valid,' Mr Mandelson said. The embargo embargo (ĕmbär`gō), prohibition by a country of the departure of ships or certain types of goods from its ports. Instances of confining all domestic ships to port are rare, and the Embargo Act of 1807 is the sole example of this in was imposed after China's 1989 military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in which hundreds, if not thousands, died. |
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