Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-01-20-Speech-4-120"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-01-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Côte d'Ivoire2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000120.8.4-120"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-20-Speech-4-1212
lpv:speaker	lp:Arlette Laguiller2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2001-05-09)3 member; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Lutte ouvrière (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"The compromise resolution on the situation in the Côte d’Ivoire requires the restoration of democratic legitimacy. But what are we dealing with here? Since the scandal of French colonial rule, via the dictatorship of Houphouët-Boigny and the regime of Konan Bédié that was as authoritarian as it was corrupt, to the military regime of Guei, the population of the Côte d’Ivoire has never experienced either truly free elections or democratic rights and freedoms. Behind the hypocritical rhetoric about democracy, the resolution deals mainly with the restoration of the authority of the State and the safety of property. Our own solidarity is with the overwhelming majority of the Côte d’Ivoire population, the workers, the unemployed, the small farmers, who have no possessions, who simply find it hard to survive. They have always had to suffer the repressive authority of the State as well as dictatorship and poverty. I would also point out the responsibility of the French State, whatever the colour of the government, which has not only supported the single party regime in the Côte d’Ivoire, but has presented it as a model of stability, even of democracy, for the whole of Africa. All that to protect the interests of the large French industrial concerns that are making themselves richer there by making the country poorer. So let us look to our own affairs before interfering in other people’s business, for if the real military regime of Guei and the false democracy of Bédié are reprehensible, then the great powers and their support for dictatorships in poor countries are even more reprehensible."@en1
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