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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-04-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Security and defence – priorities and deficiencies2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030409.5.3-265"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-04-09-Speech-3-2662
lpv:speaker	lp:Maj Britt Theorin2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialdemokratiska arbetarepartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, two thousand years ago, the Roman, Cicero, said that there are two ways of solving conflicts: either through negotiations or through violence. The first way is intended for human beings and the second way for wild beasts. Cicero’s words still apply today. Are we to solve conflicts like human beings, through negotiation, or like animals, through violence? Is the EU to put its faith in the work of active, preventive conflict resolution or in increased resources for waging conflict, that is to say more resources for the use of military methods? Can the conflicts of today and tomorrow really be resolved using military methods? I do not think so. What can we learn from the war that is going on in Iraq and from the division in the EU’s common foreign and security policy? As I see it, the EU should step up its international work, strengthen the United Nations and reinforce its capacity to prevent and resolve conflicts, rather than stake more power and resources on a common military defence which, as Commissioner Patten said, still ultimately revolves around national issues. The EU should state that the reconstruction of Iraq must take place under the auspices of the UN. A belligerent party is not impartial and cannot be entrusted with such reconstruction and take responsibility for it. My own country, Sweden, is heavily committed to conflict prevention, peacekeeping and crisis management. Neither Sweden nor I support a common defence, or common funding of such a defence. Nor do we support the idea of certain countries’ being able to take the lead in common defence work, or the introduction of a collective defence clause. War is far too serious to be entrusted either to the military or to my esteemed fellow MEP, General Morillon. What must now be crucial is to stand up for international law, strengthen the UN and its work and develop a considerable capacity on the part of the EU to identify, prevent and bring an end to conflicts. It is in that area that the EU can make considerable efforts in the cause of peace. As long as two thousand years ago, Cicero knew that only wild beasts try to resolve conflicts through violence. It is high time that the EU focused upon resolving conflicts rather than prosecuting them."@en1

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