Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-12-Speech-3-219"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-02-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Unexploded ordnance and depleted uranium ammunition2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030212.7.3-219"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-02-12-Speech-3-2202
lpv:speaker	lp:Pernille Frahm2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3 unknown; Socialistisk Folkeparti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it is, in my view, clearer than ever nowadays that there is a need for an international legal system, and it is also becoming ever clearer that, if an international legal system is to be developed that is viable and that applies to large as well as small countries, it is the EU that must play the decisive role and be the guarantor of large, as well as small, countries’ complying with a set of international ground rules. I therefore think it important also to get the Council and the Commission to follow up this very important matter of how best to emphasise to one’s partners, and in any future situation, that to use anti-personnel mines, cluster bombs and depleted uranium is to use weapons that strike indiscriminately, that hit civilian as well as non-civilian targets, that hit the innocent as well as the guilty and that can be dormant for a long time and only make themselves felt perhaps years after a possible war is over. These are weapons that are contrary to the provisions of the Geneva Convention on how we are to treat one another in the course of war. I therefore think the Council and the Commission should understand that, firstly, we must prevent these types of war crime from being committed. We must prevent these weapons being used in possible future conflicts and, clearly, we are all nowadays thinking of Iraq in this connection. There are, however, other places too in which this could be relevant. That was the first aspect. The second is to follow up those crimes that have already been committed. In that connection, I should also very much like to hear the Council’s and the Commission’s answers regarding how these crimes are to be followed up and how it is to be ensured that those who are responsible for using weapons in ways that constitute war crimes are dragged before the International War Crimes Tribunal and prosecuted, for it is not enough for us to have a set of ground rules. We must also be prepared to apply them, and we must be prepared to apply the sanctions available to us at present. It is the EU that must take this task upon itself. Otherwise, we shall end up in a world in which only the strong make the decisions, in which only the strong can do as they see fit and in which weak countries are entirely subject to the diktat of a stronger power. I eagerly await the Council’s and the Commission’s answers."@en1

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