Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-25-Speech-3-208"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Cooperation with ACP countries involved in armed conflicts2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001025.8.3-208"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-25-Speech-3-2092
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	"Mr President, the report highlights what is self-evident, that is, that armed conflicts in Africa have seen a dramatic increase in number and intensity, and that they result in immense human suffering. However, this compassionate language is also a way of covering up the direct or indirect but nonetheless overwhelming responsibility of the major European powers themselves in the majority of these conflicts, from Rwanda to Sierra Leone. Today, in the Ivory Coast, even though, faced with the reaction of the population of Abidjan against the recently attempted coup d’état, both Lionel Jospin and Jacques Chirac have taken a stand against the putsch, how is it possible not to condemn the policy of French imperialism? The links between General Gueï and the French administration are notorious, as are his links with a certain number of major French industrial conglomerates which control entire economic sectors in the Ivory Coast. Paris noted the first coup d’état by General Gueï with a benevolent neutrality. What is more, it exhibited shameful discretion towards the despicable ethnic, xenophobic demagogery which has been developed over a number of years by the rulers of the Ivory Coast. The French authorities also remained silent on the fact that ethnicity was used in the selection of candidates for the presidential elections, which ran the catastrophic risk of transforming rivalries for power into all-out ethnic war. If the European institutions really want to tackle the causes of the evil that is striking Africa, they must start by opposing the policy of the major European powers themselves."@en1

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