Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-13-Speech-3-180"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Transatlantic relations including steel import tariffs (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020313.7.3-180"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-13-Speech-3-1812
lpv:speaker	lp:Philippe Morillon2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)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) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Union pour la démocratie française (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the events of 11 September ought to have strengthened transatlantic relations by virtue of the emotions they unleashed and the solidarity displayed. On the contrary, it appears today that relations have been weakened. The North Atlantic Alliance, which took the decision to invoke Article 5 of its charter for the first time, is in crisis because the Americans did not see the need to enlist the aid of its organisational structure in the war in Afghanistan. NATO is mulling over this manifestation of unilateralism, and no one within the organisation wishes to see it as proof of the Americans’ indifference towards their European allies. I too support this view and share the ensuing frustration, but I do not subscribe to the overall conclusions drawn from it. I have always been a proponent of the idea that the prevention and management of crises by the international community should be regionalised. Our experience at the start of the Balkan crisis showed us that sending in troops from all corners of the earth, from Vancouver to Vladivostok and from Moscow to Buenos Aires, for all its huge symbolic value, was not an efficient way to proceed. Effective intervention in the maintenance and restoration of peace in specific parts of the world depends on familiarity with the culture and history of the country in crisis. This is what prompted the international community to support the establishment of a pan-African peacekeeping force, for example. It is also what prompted the Americans to base their operations in Kabul directly on the provision of support to the Afghan forces who were opposed to the barbaric dictatorship of the Taliban. As I said in Brussels in 1993, the primary mission of NATO is to intervene in European territory and on the fringes of Europe, particularly in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, in order to guarantee and develop peace and stability throughout these areas. Within the Alliance, I believe it is legitimate that the Americans, who are aware of our prosperity, require us to assume an increasing share of the burden of maintaining a European defence system that has hitherto fallen almost entirely on them. I believe that Europe must prepare itself to take over a leadership role which the Americans are willing to transfer to us gradually. To this end, the governments of the Union must possess the necessary will and must provide the necessary resources. Do you believe, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, that Europe is finally ready to assume this role?"@en1

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