Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-05-14-Speech-3-044"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-05-14"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Proinsias De Rossa2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, it is a matter of regret that Parliament has found it impossible to construct a resolution for today's debate. It is obvious from the debate here that we could in fact have constructed a resolution on a wide range of issues on which we agree. We would, of course, have had to leave aside a lot of the self-justification that we all tend to engage in on all sides. I oppose the war and I continue to oppose its outcome and the direction which Iraq is taking at the present time. However, we must seek to reconstruct confidence in a law-based world order. We cannot do that by seeking to justify ourselves in terms of our attitudes to the war. We have to do it by, in the first place, seeking to construct a unity in the European Union. We have to find a middle ground between those who see a need for a unipolar world and those who see the need for a multipolar world. There is no way out of this. The European Union has to address this issue. It could give a lead in trying to do this and I hope that when they meet next week the leaders of our groups will seek to put in place some mechanism to enable Parliament to address this matter. We cannot seriously ask the people to support us in the European elections next year and at the same time pretend we do not have a role and that we have nothing to say about the direction the world is going in. This is of the utmost importance. We are talking about war and peace. Life is still cheap in the Middle East and we will continue to count the cost of the recent war for a very long time. We need to get to grips with our different world views. We need to get to grips with the United States and persuade them that a law-based world order is far better than a . In their interests and in our interests it is essential that we do this as a matter of urgency."@en1
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