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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - The left-wing faction has encountered opposition in the Hamburg citizenship with their demand for a stop of arms exports via the Hamburg port.
Members of the other parliamentary groups also spoke out on Wednesday in the current hour for a campaign against war and violence.
However, this cannot be achieved with such a ban, especially since the legislative competence in such questions lies with the federal government.
Hamburg is currently not a gateway to the world, "but a gateway to death - with 1000 containers of ammunition and countless tanks and warships that are moved through our port every year," said Mehmet Yildiz, peace policy spokesman for the Left.
He called on the citizens and the Senate to implement the popular initiative against the transport of armaments.
Hansjörg Schmidt, economic expert for the SPD parliamentary group, spoke of a "topic that is rightly discussed critically".
But this is not a question of economic policy, "it is a question of security and foreign policy."
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Arms control needs transparency, said the Greens MP Michael Gwosdz.
That is why arms transports in Hamburg are published on the transparency portal.
The key, however, remains "a strict arms control law at the federal level."
The economic expert of the CDU, Götz Wiese, argued similarly and referred to the Foreign Trade and War Weapons Control Act.
In addition, arms exports to so-called third countries - i.e. not EU, NATO or other alliance states - fell by more than 40 percent last year, according to the federal government.
The AfD MP Krzysztof Walczak called arms exports “ethically problematic”, but at the same time they are a reality for a port like Hamburg, just as war and violence are also part of human nature.
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