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"Mr President, Commissioner, I believe that the applause that greeted your speech simply acknowledged the fact that you have demonstrated, this morning, that a European Commissioner can embody the voice of Europeans and that there is indeed a European line in this crisis. Thank you.
We are told that a
would make it possible first of all to establish democracy in Iraq and then to dry up the springs of terrorism. Yet what are we being told about the situation in Afghanistan, where a
has already taken place and where, day after day, in silence, we witness the plight of Afghan women? What are we being told about the mobilisation of public opinion, the new super-power? Why can we not understand that the public’s determination to take to the streets was based on the conviction that not only would war not dry up the springs of terrorism but also that a unilateral pre-emptive war would give rise to new terrorism? It is on the basis of what the demonstrating people of Europe are telling us that we should be acting in the Security Council, and it is unacceptable that, within the United Nations, after we had committed ourselves to disarmament by means of international pressure and after we had found that the process works under the constraints we established together, we should then, in midstream, change the rules and set an ultimatum.
Our hope is that there will be a majority against an ultimatum within the Security Council. We believe that there will be one. We believe that war is avoidable. That will depend to a large extent on Europe. It will depend to a large extent on you, President-in-Office of the Council, if Mr Blix is to be given the time he tells us he needs in order to finish the job, and he says that that means not weeks or years, but rather months.
It is in this spirit that we believe that the right of veto of certain permanent members of the Security Council should be used if it is not possible to achieve a majority. However, first of all, let us hope that there will be a majority in the Security Council. We wanted to have inspections and international legality, and all Europeans agree on that. The inspectors have carried out their work, and we acknowledge that they have made progress. The inspectors are asking us for more time, and we must give it to them.
Basically, we know that a new world order is emerging, the one that began, not on 11 September 2001, but with the fall of the Berlin Wall, which left only one super-power in the world. In view of this situation, we do not believe that any European country, by itself, can in the long term hold its own against what would effectively be the
. We are Europeans, in other words we believe in the virtues of debate and conviction, in the uselessness of humiliation and in the need to allow everyone their place on the international scene, and we believe, above all, in international law."@en1
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