Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-12-Speech-3-176"
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"Mr President, last Monday’s joint declaration by France, Germany and Russia begins with a sentence which I believe everyone will approve of. The three parties confirm that the disarmament of Iraq, in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions, is the common objective of the international community and it should be completed as soon as possible. This sentence contains four affirmations: yes Saddam Hussein is armed, yes he is (presumably) dangerous, yes he must be disarmed and yes this should be done as quickly as possible.
If this disarmament is to be effective, we must not let ourselves become bogged down in the wait-and-see policy and the beating about the bush that we have seen in the last ten years. If we are to avoid becoming bogged down, however, there is only one new argument, and that is the threat of armed intervention. It is absolutely essential that this argument should remain credible. We must do nothing to destroy its credibility if we want the discussions to make the progress that we are hoping for. This is why I believe deeply, Mr President, that the apparently different strategies of the countries of Europe and the United States are complementary rather than contradictory. We would do better to harness this complementary aspect if we are to avoid playing Saddam Hussein’s game."@en1
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