Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-25-Speech-3-126"

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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.20020925.5.3-126"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-25-Speech-3-1272
lpv:speaker	lp:Jacques F. Poos2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Parti ouvrier socialiste luxembourgeois (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Quaestors (2002-01-16--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 quaestor; Parliament's Bureau (2002-01-16--2004-07-19)3 quaestor; European Parliament (2002-01-16--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, historians will without doubt say that Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s ‘no’ to war was the stimulus for a genuine European foreign policy. Mr Schröder had the courage to say clearly and directly to President Bush what the vast majority of citizens is thinking. His ‘no’ marks Europe’s emancipation from the Pentagon’s imperialist tendencies. This preventative and solitary war would have been unjust, because, without the authorisation of the United Nations Security Council, it would have caused political difficulties and severe economic setbacks in Europe, it would have alienated the Arab world, it would not have been in the interest of Israel either, as this war would have converted Israel into a fortress perpetually under siege. The most affected, however, would have been the Palestinian people, who are today surrounded, trapped and starving in their vast open-air prison. According to the findings of the Luxembourg Committee for a Just Peace in the Middle East, this war would have exposed the Palestinians to serious dangers. The best case scenario would have been an acute increase in repression; the worst case scenario, which would fulfil Mr Sharon’s ambitions, would be the wholesale movement of populations, the colonisation of the occupied territories and the straightforward annexation of these people by Israel. The preparations for repression were already so far advanced that Mr Sharon sent in the bulldozers, even in the absence of an attack on Iraq. All that the world had to do would have been to turn a blind eye. Mr President, in a few months, the UN inspectors will tell us whether Iraq really does have military weaponry. There will still be time then, and I am speaking to you, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, to implement, in its entirety, Security Council Resolution 687(91) which emphasises that the disarmament of Iraq is part of an initiative whose goal is to establish in the Middle East a zone free from weapons of mass destruction and all missiles. The new world order, proclaimed after the Gulf War by President Bush Snr, has quickly been forgotten."@en1

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