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A European Union arms embargo clamped on China in 1989 following the Tiananmen onslaught could be lifted in early 2011,Nike Jordan 5, Brussels sources told Thursday's version of France's Le Figaro daily.
The lifting of the embargo on all lethal weapons 'could occur very quickly,' a source close to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton told the paper.
An EU diplomat in Brussels refused to confirm the claim, but acknowledged that Ashton recommended as much in a report accessible at a December 16-17 summit to the bloc's 27 national leaders.
Ashton's report described the Embargo as 'a major impediment' to Europe-China security and overseas policy cooperation.
'The EU should assess its sensible implication and design a way forward,Nike Jordan 2011,' it concluded.
Lifting the embargo would nonetheless require unanimity across EU member states.
Spain recently tried to persuade opponents to lift the embargo, and the subject can be expected to come up again in mid-January when EU foreign ministers' hold relaxed talks in Hungary.
'We will look into this,' said the ambassador.
The issue has re-emerged subsequent talks between China and the EU in Beijing focused on economic and trade collaboration, at which China indicated it would support heavily indebted eurozone economies stressed to raise finance on open markets at affordable interest rates.
An EU official insisted there was 'nothing of an exchange or negotiation whatsoever' concerning the arms embargo,Air Jordan 4, stressing that there 'nothing given in replace for that support.'
Chinese diplomat Song Zhe recently said 'it doesn't make any sense to maintain the embargo,Jordan Space Jams,' arguing that 'we will develop our own arms even faster' and claiming that arms companies in Europe 'are behind out.'
Europe was alienated on the issue when it was discussed at a meeting of foreign ministers in September, with some mooting the idea of a provisional lifting of the embargo.
Conditions included enhanced ties with Taiwan,Nike Jordan Shoes, an amnesty for arrests linked to the Tiananmen crackdown,Air Jordan Shoes, and a calendar for the sanction of the convention on civil and political rights.
The Figaro said that the Netherlands,New Jordan 2011, Britain and, to a lesser degree,Nike Jordan 1,Cheap Jordan 5 FE News is the UK's leading Skills News site - News, Germany,Air Jordan Retro 5, had each lowered their opposition to exciting the embargo.
But another diplomatic source said Britain in exacting remained set against alongside the US and Japan.
Chinese troops and tanks ended weeks of pro-democracy protests in Beijing middle Tiananmen Square on June 4,Air Jordan Space Jams, 1989, killing hundreds if not thousands of demonstrators.
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