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"Mr President, first of all I would like to mention the role of Parliament and thank it for the efforts it made to guarantee the Peace II Programme for Northern Ireland, which was negotiated with the Council through conciliation in the last few days. The European Union and indeed this Parliament are playing an important role in guaranteeing peace in parts of Europe.
It has been said that 500 trade unionists have been murdered over the last four years. Two hundred and fifty of those have been killed since President Uribe was elected as president, fifty of them in the last nine months.
If we are going to deal with this situation in a serious way we have to insist that the Colombian Government act as all governments are expected to act: within the law – not just national law, but international law. There is clearly a failure on the part of President Uribe and his government to do that.
I am concerned that the Commission is now talking about no ‘purely military’ solution, having talked previously about no solution without a negotiated settlement. I presume that is still the position. It worries me that it says ‘no purely military solution’. If we are going to accept that the Colombian Government has a right to use military force in certain circumstances, we have to insist that it act within the rule of law, particularly within the rule of international law, that human rights be protected and that trade unionists in particular be able to operate free from the threat of assassination."@en1
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