Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-13-Speech-4-194"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The Congo2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011213.14.4-194"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-12-13-Speech-4-1952
lpv:speaker	lp:Nelly Maes2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--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 unknown; Volksunie (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 vice-chair; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-19--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"A minute’s speaking time is not much to deal with 52 million people and three million dead, Mr President, but I shall try. The riches of the country are being plundered by friend and foe alike. For example, the coltran that we use in our mobile phones and military equipment is being mined and exploited by the Rwandans in the Kivu, to their own advantage. That means hundreds of thousands of dollars of profit for the Rwandan war chest, and what do we do with our policy of double standards? We support the Lusaka peace process and we demand the withdrawal of foreign troops and the promotion of inter-Congolese dialogue. But why should Rwanda abandon these spoils of war and withdraw to the borders in order to guard the security of those borders if that should be necessary? Rwanda continues to occupy the Kivu and profit from its occupation and we support Rwanda with many hundreds of thousands of euros. We want an inter-Congolese dialogue, but do we really expect that the representatives coming to that dialogue from occupied territory will speak as Congolese, or as Rwandans? In Kinshasa they think the latter. Meanwhile we are supporting Rwanda and should like to ask: why do we not support the DRC? Must the people of Congo really all die of hunger before we come up with a structural programme?"@en1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph