Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-04-Speech-3-277"
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"Mr President, the issue raised in this question is actually the more general matter of the Council’s willingness to make a clear, practical proposal on a transition which it considers to be essential and indispensable in the process of democratisation.
My question referred to a referendum on the establishment of democracy. If we do not want a referendum, then other instruments can be found. The important thing is for the Council to lay down the parameters. This is an explicit request. We cannot be content with calling for dialogue and mutual understanding and saying that the situation needs to be improved. There must be firm points of reference. You are against a referendum? Then we want to know what points of reference the Council is establishing, what you consider to be the lowest common denominator, the absolute minimum. Since you are telling us today that our trade agreements will be subject to the evaluation of progress made in democracy and human rights, our question is: If there is not to be a referendum, then what threshold, what instrument, what parameter do you consider to be the absolute minimum? Otherwise, we will just go round and round in circles, and then – you never know – the United States might intervene, amid general outcry, and propose other solutions or instruments."@en1
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