Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-25-Speech-3-106"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:CFSP (Common Foreign and Security Policy)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020925.5.3-106"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-25-Speech-3-1072
lpv:speaker	lp:Francis Wurtz2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Parti communiste français (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Presidents (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 chair; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--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
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the speech by the President-in-Office of the Council on the Middle East gave me great cause for alarm, because there are, even so, few or hardly any regions of the world in a state of conflict that has such a profound impact on global stability. There are few regions in which a State breaches international law, humanitarian law and United Nations’ resolutions to such a degree and quite so repeatedly, and there is certainly no State associated with the Union which treats Europe in such an off-hand way, destroying Palestinian infrastructures that we have financed, which refuses, first Mr Solana, then Mr Moratinos, the right to visit an occupied Palestinian territory. And there is, above all, no State which treats the appeals that we make to it with such scorn, practically torpedoing the peace efforts on which we are working. It is in this context that the President-in-Office of the Council speaks of optimism and sees the main obstacle to peace to be the Palestinians. I cannot comprehend this! You are obviously right to condemn outright the suicide attacks and any act of terrorism against innocent people, in Israel just as in any other country. The Palestinian Authority also condemns them systematically and has often tried to put a stop to them. But what has Mr Sharon done during the last six weeks of relative calm to try to dispel the tension and re-launch the dialogue? The newspaper answers for you, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, in pointing out that 30 Palestinian civilians were killed in August alone and another newspaper, condemned the irresponsible nature of these crimes, although, apparently, the number of terrorist attacks has fallen spectacularly. This is the truth, and it has to be told, Mr President-in-Office of the Council. Mr Sharon will not bring security and peace to his own people by re-occupying Palestinian towns, setting up yet more colonies, starving the population and destroying everything that can keep the hope of a State alive, particularly the hope of Palestinian Authority, and this is something being pointed out by many dignified and courageous people in Israel itself. What credibility can the Elsinore peace plan that you mentioned have, if you gloss over the root causes of the Middle East tragedy? What sort of tragedy might this reckless headlong pursuit of the strategy of force lead to, if all those who have some authority do not use all their influence to stop Ariel Sharon? You did not even demand an end to the siege of President Arafat or the withdrawal of Israeli forces. Does it not bother you that your position is a considerable distance from Commissioner Patten’s, for example? Europe must live up to the world’s expectations of it. Today, you unfortunately fell far short of them."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause from the left)"1 "Ha’aretz"1 "Yedioth Ahronot"1

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