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01 January 2007

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EU: Plans to regulate private military companies: Robert Cooper, Director General for External and Politico-Military Affairs in the Council of the EU has called for a EU policy to regulate the private security industry. Cooper made a speech at a conference on The Private Security Phenomenon: Policy Implications and Issues, organised by the Security and Defence Agenda in Brussels. Cooper said that it was necessary to "sort out the respectable from the less respectable". There has been considerable growth in this sector the last years. For instance since the start of the Iraq war the number of UK private security companies rose from three to 23. Private companies arranged negotiations to end the civil war in Aceh and protected the EU Police Mission in Bosnia. Jane's Defence Weekly, 20.12.06 (Nicholas Fiorenza)

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