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| Dutch warship sales to Indonesia violate EU code |
| 2005-06-03 |
| Recent Dutch warship sales to Indonesia violate the European Union's code of conduct on exporting arms, Raul Romeva, the European Parliament's rapporteur on military exports, said on Thursday. "These projects clearly violate the code of conduct on arms exports, which prohibits arms supplies to unstable regions, countries in conflict and countries in which respect for human rights is disregarded," he said. According to a statement from the Greens group in parliament, of which Romeva is a member, the Dutch government has authorised a national shipyard to build two small corvette warships for the Indonesian navy. The project comes on top of an earlier order for two corvettes, and is valued at up to 800 million euros (980 million dollars). Another Dutch company is also modernising a military vessel previously delivered to Indonesia. "In the Aceh conflict in 2003 similar ships were used by the Indonesian authorities during coastal assaults. That issue has not been solved yet and Indonesia is meanwhile ravaged by internal conflicts," Romeva said. "It is shocking that so soon after the devastating tsunami an EU member state would encourage Indonesia to spend hundreds of millions of euros on new warships," Romeva said, referring to the December 26 quake-triggered disaster that killed nearly 300,000 people across the Indian Ocean. i guess thats where all the tsunami funds went ? He said other EU states are also supplying military equipment to Indonesia, which is a former Dutch colony. |
| Posted by:Spavirt Pheng6042 |
| #5 EU code? Algol? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-06-03 14:25 |
| #4 Code |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-06-03 14:22 |
| #3 http://home.teleport.com/~jrolsen/premiums/ovaltine.html CODES? I think it is who is providing the decoder ring. To understand the code issues, one must understand the SOURCE of the code. That's why there is a problem! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-06-03 14:21 |
| #2 Yeah, because China has such a better record on human rights issues. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-06-03 08:59 |
| #1 But it's perfectly OK to sell to China. |
| Posted by: gromky 2005-06-03 08:53 |