EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RECOMMENDS MAINTAINING ARMS EMBARGO ON CHINA
ROC Central News Agency
2005-04-27 23:36:45
Paris, April 27 (CNA) The European Parliament recommended the European Union (EU) Wednesday to keep its arms embargo against China in place until China's human rights record improves significantly.
In its annual report on global human rights for 2004, which was released Wednesday in Brussels, Belgium at the beginning of a plenary session of the European Parliament, the parliament said even the development of EU economic ties with China should depend on China's progress in human rights protection, such as the release of political prisoners and the affirmation of the 1989 Tiananmen pro- democracy demonstration.
Freedom of association and religion in Tibet and Xinjiang is also a cause of great concern to the European Parliament, according to the report.
The report hailed the start of regular dialogue between the EU and China over human rights issues, saying that it hopes the dialogue will push China to reduce the number of inmates it executes every year and give its people more freedom of association and religion.
(By Lo Yuan-shao and Maubo Chang)
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