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"Mr President, anyone who follows the urgent debate in this Parliament will realise that the history of Europe appears to be returning to haunt us. That is to say that, in the previous debate on the Moluccas, we heard a lot of Dutch and now I fear that the Commissioner is going to hear a lot of Spanish, because we are talking about Venezuela. What is happening is that the history of Europe is returning to haunt us. The Europeans who went and occupied the world, now, in a sense, are influenced by what is happening elsewhere, and therefore, when we speak, although – especially for the Commissioner – this may seem like a litany of complaints, we are in fact expressing the opinion of the voters. Specifically in my country, Spain, and in the region I come from – the Canary Islands – the catastrophe in Venezuela has been felt as if it had happened in our own country.
My regret is that, at the moment, Mr Busquin, who is a great Commissioner and a great politician, and who is in a position to understand these problems, is not, in fact, the Commissioner responsible for the matter, because he probably already has a written answer and anything I say is not going to influence his reply, because I am sure he is not able to change that reply. I do hope, however, that he will at least read the motion for a resolution and take note of some of the issues which concern us.
The disaster in Venezuela has not been an ordinary disaster. We are talking about the disappearance of 50 000 people – in reality, the death of 50 000 people – the disappearance of a state – the state of Vargas – where the Maiquetía airport and the port of La Guaira are located, which is the entrance or ‘hall’ of Venezuela. That state must be rebuilt and it must be done in a way which will prevent any further disaster. The disaster did not happen as a result of mere negligence on the part of the authorities. It happened as a result of the collapse of an entire ridge – the ridge of the Ávila National Park – and therefore this will have to be taken into account in its reconstruction.
I hope that the Commission will take Parliament’s considerations into account and will consider the possibility of organising some type of ‘conference of donors’, or something of the sort, with other organisations and states so that, amongst all of us, we can help the Venezuelan government to reconstruct a very important part of the country."@en1
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