В общем с темой отмены эмбарго ЕС на поставки Китаю, похоже, покончено
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Представитель ХДС по вопросам внешней политики уже заявил, что в программе нового правительства вопрос о снятии эмбарго не значится. И вообще Меркель намерена занять в отношении китайцев более жесткую политику, чем Шредер, доставать их правами человека и т.п.
Germany to tell China's Hu it will not contest arms embargo Friday November 11, 10:44 AM
Click to enlarge photo BERLIN (AFP) - Chinese President Hu Jintao has gone into talks with Germany's incoming chancellor Angela Merkel, who was expected to tell him that her government will not support lifting an EU arms embargo on China.
Outgoing Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has opposed the embargo and sought to persuade his European partners to abandon it, angering some EU countries and the United States.
But Hu will be informed on Friday that Merkel's new power-sharing administration will not take up the
fight to scrap the 16-year ban, her party has said. The embargo on arms sales to China was imposed in the wake of the brutal crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests.
"Lifting the arms embargo is not on the agenda of the new government," the foreign policy spokesman of Merkel's Christian Democrats, Friedbert Pflueger, told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper.
He said any change to this position would "only come in close consultations with our European and Atlantic partners."
Hu, on the second day of his visit to Germany, the second leg of a European tour, was due later Friday to hold talks with Schroeder.
In a speech to business leaders on Thursday, the Chinese president said he hoped the change of government here would not affect China's relationship with the biggest economy in the European Union.
Vague EU pledges to lift the embargo were put aside after China passed an anti-secession law on Taiwan in April, heightening concerns that the law could eventually lead to war in the Taiwan Straits.
Rights group Amnesty called on Merkel to raise the issue of human rights during her talks with Hu.
Amnesty said she should ask China to impose a moratorium on its use of the death penalty and argued that Germany's approach of trying to promote "change through trade" in China had failed and should be re-assessed.
After spending three days in Britain, Hu began his four-day stay in Germany by overseeing a raft of business and cultural agreements on Thursday, including a deal which will see electronics giant Siemens supply 60 high-speed trains to China as part of a 1.3-billion-euro (1.5-billion-dollar) agreement.
But as in Britain, Hu's visit is being dogged by human rights protests.
Several hundred members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement gathered outside the Charlottenburg Palace where he held talks with German President Horst Koehler on Thursday, but pro-China supporters were also present.
Despite the protests, Europe is rolling out the red carpet for Hu, keenly aware of the massive economic strides China is making.
Deals with British-based companies worth a total of 783 million pounds (1.2 billion euros, 1.3 billion dollars) were struck on the first leg of the tour.
Germany is China's biggest European trade partner, with German exports rising 12.7 percent in the first half of 2005 to 9.48 billion euros.
After talks with Hu, Koehler had praise for China's progress in reducing poverty but said there were "clear differences" between the two countries positions' on certain issues.
Hu did not directly reply to Koehler's speech in his brief response, saying only: "I am convinced that closer cooperation will serve the people of both countries."
The president was also to lay the foundation stone of a new Chinese cultural centre in Berlin on Friday before visiting the industrial region of North Rhine-Westphalia on Saturday.
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