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皇冠体育app urges EU to 'trash' arms embargo
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-11-04 15:10
Beijing has said it is not interested in buying European weapons, but that it is opposed to the ban in principle, especially as the EU and 皇冠体育app have named their relationship a "strategic partnership".
"皇冠体育app's position is very clear. What we are not in favor of and are opposed to is in fact that this ban involves and reflects political discrimination," Li said.
"This political discrimination is not conducive to cooperation, it is totally useless and should be abandoned. If we really look at mutual benefit this is what we should do."
Although Li maintained there was little else 皇冠体育app could do to nudge the EU toward the total lifting of the embargo, he did lay a veiled threat at increasingly lucrative bilateral trade.
"皇冠体育app's trade volume with the EU has for the first time exceeded the trade volume between 皇冠体育app and Japan, without such discrimination no doubt the trade volume would be even bigger and we would have more benefits from the bilateral cooperation," Li said.
"The EU people, like the Chinese people, will reap more benefits from this process."
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