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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, it is too late to change the past, but we must ensure, once again, that it is not too late where the future is concerned. I would like us to be able in future to discuss this matter once again, but in another context, completely different to that of 21 December and to that of today, to say in future, that this has never happened again or that, if a new unfortunate situation involving risks and threats should arise, this time, thanks to the measures that have been adopted and to the technical and political awareness that we have all gained, the management of the crisis has run smoothly.
At the moment, we are still in shock and this shock is at once good and bad for us. It is good in the sense that we will adopt firmer, more rigorous and tougher measures for the future; it is bad, however, if we undertake, or plan to undertake an investigation of crisis management in a highly emotional state or in one of biased shock. It is, furthermore, extremely important, in this regard too, that a technically rigorous and politically dispassionate investigation should be undertaken into how the crisis was managed, not primarily in order to judge anyone, but to prevent any mistakes being repeated in future.
Our group also wishes to draw attention to a new raft of preventive measures. We have heard about preventive measures concerning the technical risks facing vessels or the way in which voyages are undertaken. This is true, but it is not enough: we must also identify conditions of legal risk, if I may use that expression, in other words, issues of flags of convenience and seaworthiness certificates that are not worth the paper they are printed on. We must also define mechanisms that can be made requirements at international level and which disqualify these operations, these so-called off-shore maritime navigation operations. A doctrine has developed with regard to the misdeeds of off-shore operations in money laundering and we also need to develop a doctrine of combating off-shore operations for laundering responsibilities for the sailing conditions of ships."@en1
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