Amnesty calls for controls on arms trade

STRINGENT new measures must be put in place to adequately control Europe’s booming arms trade, Amnesty International said yesterday.

Amnesty calls for controls on arms trade

Launching a new Europe-wide report into the EU's burgeoning trade in military and defence equipment, Amnesty researcher Michael Crowley said there were many inadequacies in the way in which exports were controlled in Europe.

"There are flaws in the design and application of the EU code and many breaches and weaknesses in national export controls," he said.

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