Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-16-Speech-4-125"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Chechnya2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030116.9.4-125"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-16-Speech-4-1262
lpv:speaker	lp:Bart Staes2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Anders gaan arbeiden, leven en vrijen (2002-09-23--2004-01-05)3,3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this is, I believe, the third or fourth debate on Chechnya in one year. It shows how determined Parliament is not to remain silent about this war. According to reports, our Russian friends are not impressed by this type of debate and are also not impressed by the resolutions we are adopting here. I have always been taught that you must always tell your friends the truth, that you must not withhold anything. If friends keep quiet in front of each other, they are doing the wrong thing. I would like to send this message to our Russian friends. The situation in Chechnya is bad. Let us acknowledge that. We all know that, and the Russians must also have the courage to acknowledge it. Various fellow MEPs have already pointed this out. People disappear, people are tortured and relief workers are kidnapped. There is a real guerrilla war in progress. A dirty war on the part of the Russians, but also on the part of the Chechen rebels. The situation in the refugee camps in Ingushetia is terrible. Yet the Russians are now trying to force these people to return to Chechnya. We all know that this is not a good thing to do during the winter months and is in fact impossible. The OSCE is being removed from Chechnya. The Russians evidently do not want any busybodies there. Just as they are actually preventing us from going there with a delegation. They use what I believe to be specious arguments for this in a letter to our President. The truth is that they do not have the situation in Chechnya under control at the moment and they cannot guarantee our safety. We all know that our Russian colleagues are very dissatisfied with the resolutions we are adopting. Nevertheless, the present resolution is very balanced. It is a resolution that shows that we in Parliament want a solution and that we really want to make a positive contribution to this. I therefore call on our Russian colleagues to resume the dialogue with our Parliament in order to engage with us in an honest and proper way and to ensure that we can ultimately bring the two parties together with a view to reaching a political solution."@en1

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