EU condemns Turkey, but no formal arms ban

LONDON: The EU on Monday condemned Turkey’s assault on Kurdish forces in northern Syria^[1] but stopped short of imposing a formal arms^[2] embargo, as urged by some countries.
Several European states including Germany and France^[3] have already halted arms exports to Turkey^[4] over the offensive and there were calls for an official EU-wide ban. But senior diplomats said Turkey’s membership of Nato made such an embargo extremely difficult.
Instead, EU member states agreed to the ‘strict application’ of their existing common policy on arms exports, which includes a provision that they should not be approved where they may “contribute to regional instability”.

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1. ^{^} Syria (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
2. ^{^} arms (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
3. ^{^} France (www.happytrips.com)
4. ^{^} Turkey (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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