Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-12-Speech-3-181"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-02-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Iraq2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030212.5.3-181"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Gary Titley2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I have to say that I was more than a little surprised to hear Commissioner Nielson's opening remarks. He said that the poverty in Iraq at the moment is a result of the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf war and ten years of international sanctions. I heard no mention whatsoever that Saddam Hussein has used weapons of mass destruction to kill hundreds of thousands of his own people. Nor was there any reference to the fact that Iraq has a corrupt dictatorship which represses freedom, stifles initiative and siphons off money that was intended for food and medicines for its own people under the oil-for-food programme, but is instead used by Saddam to build more of his own palaces. We must be clear that the villain of this piece is Saddam Hussein – full stop! Any weakening of that position will make war more, not less, likely. Commissioner Nielson also said that this is not an institutional problem, but then he gave us an institutional solution. He said that we could solve all these problems by more QMV. QMV will not create the political will to have common policies. We should have a common foreign and security policy – not a single policy but a policy. We all have our views on how it is that the common policy set in Copenhagen has suddenly somewhat disintegrated. The French President is very good at the rhetoric of European cooperation, but not so good at the practical aspects and seems to think common policies apply to everyone but . Nonetheless, we must have a common policy. That much is very clear. Let us remind ourselves that Resolution 1441 states that Iraq is in breach of UN resolutions and has been for over ten years and that any obstruction will lead to serious consequences. We have to be united in accepting that those serious consequences will follow. Any weakening of that position runs the risk of undermining world global security. If we are to resolve this situation we need less name-calling and a more coherent approach."@en1
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