Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-29-Speech-3-061"

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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	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030129.2.3-061"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-29-Speech-3-0622
lpv:speaker	lp:Véronique De Keyser2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (2001-09-25--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (2001-09-25--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (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, High Representative, almost everything has been said today. I would like to welcome the efforts of the Greek Presidency to resolve the situation we find ourselves in. The European Parliament will perhaps adopt a common resolution tomorrow on Iraq, a resolution which I support. But I am appalled that the minimal consensus it reflects, which underlines the central role of the United Nations Security Council, is so timid. Although defence and security are clearly intergovernmental matters, I believe that world peace and stability cannot be restricted to one pillar. You have said, Mr Solana, that the overwhelming majority of Europeans are unambiguously against the war. And we, in this Parliament, in order to safeguard European cohesion and our trans-Atlantic relations, vacillate and pay a high price, that of silence, and at times hypocrisy, since we are pretending to believe certain things. We are pretending to believe that the non-existence of something can be proved. We are pretending to believe that we are fighting terrorism, when there is every indication that we are going to make it infinitely worse. We are pretending to believe that Iraq is a threat to the world, when actually it is a country on its knees. We are pretending to believe that only that country has weapons of mass destruction, when the entire region is a powder keg. We are pretending to believe that the 150 000 men amassed on the borders of Iraq are only there to put pressure on Saddam Hussein. We are pretending to believe, as Mr Poignant has said, that this war does not have a terrible whiff of oil and that Bush’s real objective is to return Iraq to the Iraqis. We are also pretending to believe that democracy can be built by force on a site littered with mines and bombs. And we are pretending to believe that we will never be accomplices in a massacre and that the UN, that arbiter of international law, will play an impartial role and is not subject to horrendous pressures. Mr President, I am ashamed today!"@en1

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