Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-29-Speech-3-034"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Iraq2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030129.2.3-034"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-29-Speech-3-0352
lpv:speaker	lp:Margrietus van den Berg2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partij van de Arbeid (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-22--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; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, 72% of my compatriots are against a war in Iraq. They have not yet seen any convincing evidence. They are concerned about the human suffering, the increasing South-North divide that will increase hatred amongst people and hinder democratisation and solutions in the Middle East. The fear is that fundamentalists of all hues will use and abuse the opportunity to determine our world agenda, which will result in the opposite of world peace, stability and justice. In a world in which oil prices are rising and the chance of peace is falling, it is the developing countries with no oil that are the main victims. The gap will grow. The international coalition against international terrorism is being undermined. Whoever tries to oust Saddam through war without convincing evidence, without a UN resolution and therefore without public opinion on their side, is undermining the international rule of law. Europeans are not at all convinced. That is why the European members of the UN Security Council must exert maximum pressure on Saddam to answer Blix’s questions without making the mistake of falling into an unregulated and improper war. Germany, Britain, France and Spain must all listen to their people and not to the fundamentalist Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz in George Bush’s circle. There have fortunately been many protests from the American people, and a large number of Democrats have rejected the logic of inevitable war. We are looking for allies among the American people, the majority of whom are not in favour of a unilateral war. We reject the logic of inevitable war. The dictator Saddam must fear the wrath of the whole world, but this must be aimed at allowing him to cooperate peacefully in finding answers and not in another Bay of Pigs or another Tonkin incident. And if Bush ultimately comes up with the evidence which he has been repeatedly promising us and which Blix has also urgently requested, that is not a reason for war but, on the contrary, to inspect through the UN and then to tackle and eliminate the problems. The power of a united Security Council must bring Saddam to his knees, and we must take time to do that. We have the time, Saddam does not. A war without convincing evidence or a UN resolution would be an admission of weakness and would really play into the hands of the Saddams of this world. Let us Europeans, via you, Mr Solana, the 15 Member States and the Security Council, build on our European peoples’ desire for peace. That is true wisdom."@en1
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