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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-01-31"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Plan Colombia2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010131.6.3-137"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-01-31-Speech-3-1382
lpv:speaker	lp:Karin Scheele2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2001-01-16--2001-11-29)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the discussion we are having this evening in plenary is evocative of the hearing of the Committee on Development and Cooperation that took place back in September of last year. There is widespread agreement as to the fact that Plan Colombia and these pronouncedly military components pose a threat to the peace negotiations now under way, and will engender an escalation of the conflict in Colombia after more than three decades of civil war, over 300 000 dead, and when we had hoped that it would be possible to engage in dialogue once President Pastrana took office, and resolve the country’s problems, i.e. the conflict. The point has been made repeatedly today that the world drugs problem must be tackled at its roots. Naturally I agree with this, but the problem of the conflict in Colombia must also be tackled at the roots, and Europe cannot afford to make the same mistakes as the USA, by believing that the drugs trade is at the root of the intensifying violence and conflict, and at the same time, closing its eyes to the unjust social system and difficult political system in Colombia. Commissioner, Representative of the Council, last September, Parliament called upon the Union to develop an independent strategy for tackling the drugs problem. A month later, in October, the Council declared that the Union supports the peace moves and also wants to attend the negotiations. What we have heard you say today sounds very promising and I believe the Union must continue its work along these lines. It is farcical to believe that we can resolve the conflict in Colombia by deploying military means in order to fight the drugs trade, whilst forgetting the social and political problems facing this country, and it is also a betrayal of the Colombian people, who have already waited so long for peace and stability in their country."@en1

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