Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-10-13-Speech-3-070"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-10-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in the Middle East2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041013.4.3-070"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-10-13-Speech-3-0712
lpv:speaker	lp:Pasqualina Napoletano2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; DROI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (2004-07-21--2008-02-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; INTA (2004-07-21--2005-06-06)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2005-06-06)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, some people have stated that the war in Iraq will have favoured a rapid solution to the conflict in the Middle East. A cynical forecast, instrumental in justifying a wrong and illegal war. A forecast belied by the terrible picture before our eyes: despair in the Palestinian camp, growing terrorism and fundamentalism, crisis in the Palestinian Authority and fear in Israeli society, which gives Prime Minister Sharon the opportunity to unleash indiscriminate repression and to proceed undaunted with the construction of the wall. The withdrawal from Gaza that has been announced has by no means been said to be paving the way for the restitution of the occupied territories of the West Bank. On the contrary, it could be the prelude, via the settlement activity which is being stepped up, to the definitive acquisition by Israel of the majority of those territories, confining the Palestinians within enclaves which have nothing to do with the sovereign state to which they are entitled. The road map has not provided the tools with which to prevent the negotiation process from once more being overwhelmed by violence. The international community, and above all the Middle East Quartet, ought to draw some conclusions from all this and reflect on this fact. As for the possibility of a solution to the conflict, the Geneva negotiators, in contrast to Camp David, have demonstrated that it is possible to find dignified solutions to which both sides can agree on all the points of conflict, even on the most sensitive and thorny issues, such as the status of Jerusalem and the right to return up until the final status. The Middle East question ought, moreover, to have absolute priority in the relations between the European Union and the United States – in the hope that there will be a change in the administration there. Today we can also rely on the positive role played by some Arab countries – Egypt and Jordan – and on the improvement of our relations with Syria and the normalisation of relations with Libya. Tomorrow, this state of affairs could be very different. If yesterday Europe’s security was linked to developments to the east, today it depends on the southern and south-eastern dimension. It is also for these reasons that the Middle East conflict is not something which has nothing to do with us, but is the central issue in the future of European security."@en1

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