China has called on the EU to lift its 17-year-old ban on arms sales to Beijing to improve the relations between the two.
The call comes ahead of an EU-Asia meeting taking place in Helsinki this weekend.
"We hope the European Union will honour its commitment and make the political decision to lift the ban at an early date, because that will be conducive to the further growth of Chinese-EU relations," Chinese Foreign ministry official Li Ruiyu said at a news conference on Wednesday...
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