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"en.20041117.3.3-055"2
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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, I have here the conclusions of the November Council on the Union's foreign policy. I have to say that, while I consider it a good thing that the Council turned its attention to four European foreign policy issues, events lead us to prioritise at least two at the moment.
The first is the situation in Iraq. War is being waged again and the war is condemnable just as, of course, the terrorist action and kidnaps are condemnable. Armed conflicts and operations do not resolve problems; on the contrary, they increase the obligation of the European Union to submit, at long last, a full and integrated programme on the subject of addressing the crisis in Iraq. The first step in this process must be elections. Elections in Iraq must be held and as many forces as possible must participate, so that the elections really are not an end in themselves but a means which will allow Iraq to shortly become a progressive democracy.
The second parallel and related issue is the situation in the Middle East. The post-Arafat era is, of course, a new page in the history of this area. Over and above all, the European Union has an obligation here to intervene so that the political testament of Yasser Arafat is respected, because it is certain that the crisis in the Middle East will be addressed through the political testament left by Yasser Arafat."@en1
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