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Libya - Italy: the complicity embarrassed
Lock the market for arms and respect human rights

On 2 September We have expressed our disgust for the "unseemly spectacle" in honor of Gaddafi prepared by the head of government who ostentatiously kissed the hand of the dictator without considering any reference to human rights abuses, the tragic fate of victims of rejections, who died in the desert or in Libyan prisons. Now is the ruthless repression of the revolts. Armed groups fired on a crowd that is also bombed.

Pax Christi wants to remember that Italy is Europe's leading exporter of arms to the regime of Gaddafi. In the 2008-2009 period, the Italian government has authorized the sending of arms companies own more than € 205 million, more than a third of all permits issued by the EU. In contrast to European counterparts, the foreign minister refrained from reporting even the temporary suspension of arms supplies to Gaddafi.

Italy, thanks to the many business and horrors, embarrassed, stuttering.
Yet there have been stresses.

After the first riots in the countries of North Africa, with the Network Disarmament and the peace table, we asked the government to suspend all military cooperation with all countries of the region.

But life is worth more of Libyan oil, gas and all other interests.

E 'urgent review of the "treaty of friendship, partnership and cooperation between Italy and Libya" (signed in Benghazi in August 2008 by Berlusconi and Gaddafi) with which the Italian exports of weapons to the Libyan coast have got momentum. We want to remind

that the Act 185 of 1990 on arms exports concerned with establishing the "respect for human rights in the country of final destination" and to refuse the export of arms "if there is a clear risk that military equipment or technology to be exported can be used for internal repression ".

disarmament, justice and democracy are the foundation for the North Africa and the Mediterranean become, according to the dream of La Pira, a large new lake of Tiberias." not the bloodbath that we are forced to look in front home.

Pax Christi

Florence Italy, February 22, 2011