Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-26-Speech-4-038"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-02-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU policy towards South Caucusus2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040226.2.4-038"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-02-26-Speech-4-0392
lpv:speaker	lp:Ursula Schleicher2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern e.V. (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; AFCO (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, especial thanks are due to Mr Gahrton for his report and also for the close cooperation with our delegation to the South Caucasus, of which he has been constantly supportive, being always present at its meetings and always willing to give it his advice. It is very difficult for the states that formerly belonged to the Soviet Union to stand on their own feet, and all of them have similar problems in establishing democracy. The European Union’s policy objective is to encourage a willingness to live as a neighbourhood in the South Caucasus and to manage conflict. Moscow’s objectives are precisely the opposite. As we have just heard the report on Russia, let me state my view that we have to get to grips with these things as a matter of urgent necessity. Now that fourteen years have passed since the Soviet Union collapsed, it is quite bizarre that Soviet passports should still be treated as valid, and, most of all, that they should be offered to people in secessionist regions – in Georgia, for example, but also in others. That it should be possible to issue them with such passports, give them visas and make them practically independent of their own states is a very regrettable state of affairs. Many Members have already made reference to energy policy. I regret that it has not yet been possible to find a date on which to hold an energy congress here in Brussels, which this House offered to organise jointly with the Commission. I would like again to ask Commissioner Patten to do everything possible to make it, at the very least, possible for a congress of this kind to be held this year, for these states need the hope that the EU gives if they are to be able to turn away from corruption and build up truly stable democracies."@en1

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