China Tries to Prevent Weapons in Darfur

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Source: Associated Press

China Tries to Prevent Weapons in Darfur

Thursday July 5, 2007 1:16 PM

BEIJING (AP) - China's special envoy to Sudan pledged
Thursday that Beijing will try to prevent the weapons
it sells to Sudan from being used in violence-wracked
Darfur.

“We will do our best to prevent the weapons from
finding their way into the wrong hands and from doing
the wrong things,” said Liu Guijin, referring to his
country's arms exports to Sudan.

Liu outlined no specific measures to prevent this from
happening, but said he had discussed where Chinese
arms would go and how they would be used with
Sudan's government.

“I can assure you that China has applied strict criteria
in exporting weapons to Sudan,” he said.

Beijing says its “limited” sales do not breach the U.N.
embargo on weapons entering Darfur, but human rights
activists say there is nothing to prevent the Sudanese
army from taking the gear into the region.

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