The current hearings of the parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade on Canada's current nuclear non-proliferation, arms control, and disarmament policies, and the announcement at the Madrid Summit in July 1997 that NATO will review its nuclear policy once again, provide an unprecedented opportunity for Canadians to call upon both NATO and Russia to negotiate a no-first-use re ...[+++]gime and to restructure their military forces accordingly.

14. Points out that the export of arms and military technology can endanger the stability and peace of the entire region; deeply deplores the fact that EU Member States have exported extensive quantities of arms and military technology to Russia, including major strategic conventional capacities; calls on France, Germany and Italy, as the biggest arms exporters to Russia, to fundamentally review their export policies towards Russia, to assume responsibility and ensure compliance with the EU arms control regime; urges the French Gov ...[+++]ernment not to deliver the first Mistral class battleship on 1 November 2014 as currently planned; welcomes the decision of the German Government to immediately suspend cooperation between Rheinmetall and the Russian armed forces regarding the construction of the combat training centre;

52. Believes that the EU has an important role to play in the process of institutional transition in Libya, in particular in the demobilisation and integration of members of revolutionary brigades, the reorganisation of the armed forces and assistance in controlling land and sea borders; considers it regrettable that the EU contribution in the security sector is slow to materialise, and that difficulties in planning and implementing th ...[+++]is contribution are leaving the field open to bilateral initiatives of doubtful visibility and consistency; supports the acceleration of planning for a civilian mission to assist border controls;

This list, which is awaiting approval, includes in particular the illicit brokering of small arms, control of transfers, verification of end use, the link between security and development, the management of weapons held by the military and security forces, the creation of machinery for implementing the UN action plan, the possession of small arms by civilians, transfer to non-state players and technical assista ...[+++]nce for the submission and presentation of reports.

Next, contrary to much evidence presented to the Commons and Senate defence committees earlier this year and contrary to numerous comments by the current and past defence ministers, the American missile and other military plans are now leading to a dangerous new escalating arms race, to nuclear proliferation, to the shredding of vitally important and long-standing arms control ...[+++] agreements, and to the terrible possibility of an apocalyptic nuclear war.

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