Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-26-Speech-3-073"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Outcome of the European Council (Brussels, 21-22 March, 2003)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030326.5.3-073"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-26-Speech-3-0742
lpv:speaker	lp:Jacques F. Poos2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Parti ouvrier socialiste luxembourgeois (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Quaestors (2002-01-16--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 quaestor; Parliament's Bureau (2002-01-16--2004-07-19)3 quaestor; European Parliament (2002-01-16--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, entirely in line with the people of Europe, on 30 January last the European Parliament, with a comfortable majority, declared itself to be against unilateral military action in Iraq. Such a war, we said, would not be in compliance with either international law or the United National Charter. An illegal and neo-colonial war is currently underway. Every day it shows us its real face. Instead of condemning it and calling on the Security Council to ensure that international peace and regional peace are respected immediately, the European Council of 20 March was unable to agree on anything other than an anodyne declaration. This declaration said that the United Nations must continue to play a central role during and after the crisis. The word ‘continue’ here is doubtless a bad joke which slipped into the text by mistake, because before the crisis the United Nations, as we all know, had been flouted and swept aside by the United States, with the complicity of two Member States of the European Union. The absence of any formal Commission proposals and the rule of unanimity no doubt explain why the European Council was incapable of looking after the interests of the European Union, and incapable of saying, loudly and clearly, that the interests of the Union are best protected by multilateral action and that the rule of law is always preferable to the law of the strongest power. President Bush now has the war he always wanted, the war that he decided to wage a long time ago. As one French newspaper described him, he is in the position of a new-look Doctor Strangelove. Ample proof has now been provided that some Member States do not want an independent common foreign and security policy. Well, political Europe will be constructed without them, in the same way as monetary union was."@en1

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