'Lifting of EU arms ban on China could be tied to HR'
European Union president Luxemb-ourg said that a lifting of the arms embargo on China could be linked to human rights, amid caution within the 25-member bloc over ending the ban.
Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing lobbied at the 38-nation Asia-Europe Meeting in Kyoto, Japan for a withdrawal of the embargo on arms sales imposed after the 1989 massacre of democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.
"People have to know that lifting the embargo does not mean it will be replaced by nothing," Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn told reporters.
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