Relations to promote the security

Here we have to talk about the weapons embargo, the satellites, the nuclear non-proliferation and the transparency about the military waste.

The weapons embargo took place in the area of the protests in the Tien An Men square in Pekin; some students started a strike against the government and it sent the troopes so the repression was bloody. The UE dictated a sanction against China and imposed a weapon embargo. Inside this point there are some discrepancies against the Member States. France and Germany are advocates to raise the embargo; however the United Kingdom and other countries are afraid of the potential threat of China. In 2004 the Europeans reached an agreement to raise the embargo, but the pressures of United States of America made United Kingdom to change his opinion in March 2005. Nowadays the European Parliament has a contrary position to the weapon embargo, due to the lack of progress in the field of human rights. 

In respect of the satellites we have to highlight the Galileo Europe Programme (Commission Communication of 10^th February 1999), in which China enter as the first non-european country in 2004. It consists in a radio system of navigation and positioning by satellite who equips the European Union with technology independent from EEUU and Russia (in principle it has civil use unlike the ones of Russia and EEUU). China leaves the project in 2006 with the objective to create his own satellite.

About the implementation of the Galileo Programme, we have to highlight the Council Resolution of 3^rd August 1999; in which invited the Commission to present a negotiation project for the cooperation with EEUU and Russia, as well as one analysis in cost-benefit relation of the programme and the possible sources of investment public-privates.

Also emphasize the Proposal for a Regulation on the European Parliament and of the Council related to the execution of the deployment phases and exploitation of the programme, and the Regulation nº 876/2002 of the Council, of 24^th May 2002, for the creation of the common programme Galileo.

Regarding the nuclear non-proliferation, it is an open treaty that restricts the possession of nuclear weapons (Resolution approved by the General Assembly in the twenty-second period of sessions, about the basis of the report of the first Commission). The same contemplates an exception of five states called as nuclear-armed states, who are allowed to possess nuclear weapons. These countries are: EEUU, United Kingdom, France, Russia and the People´s Republic of China. Such treaty is based on the no proliferation, the disarmament and the pacific use of the nuclear energy. Nonetheless, in the last years, China has increased its nuclear arsenal, revealing a compromising situation.

Finally, the EU has demanded China a bigger transparency of the military waste, with the objective to prevent any wartime intention (Resolution of the European Parliament about the implementation of the European Security Strategy, of 16^th November 2006).