Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-26-Speech-3-099"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-01-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in the Middle East2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050126.7.3-099"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-01-26-Speech-3-1002
lpv:speaker	lp:Janusz Onyszkiewicz2
lpv:spokenAs	member; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Belarus (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Unia Wolnosci (2004-07-20--2005-06-16)3 member; SEDE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2005-05-08)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (2004-07-20--2007-01-15)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2004-07-20--2007-01-15)3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-30--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Many thanks, Mr President. Members of this House have repeatedly expressed their hope that not only will the peace process in Palestine be resumed, but that recent events in the country will amount to the start of democracy building, and of building what may be the first democracy in Arab countries. Of course, building this democracy will not be the simplest of tasks. We are all aware of the scale of the country’s problems, for example the widespread corruption. It is common knowledge that democracy must not consist merely of civilian control over law-enforcement agencies, such as the police and the secret service. In order for democracy to be meaningful, the authorities’ actions, and most importantly the budget, must also be transparent. The reason I say this is that the European Union is providing significant amounts of financial aid to the Palestinian Authority, and will of course continue to do so. It is important for these funds to be accounted for, so that we know how they have been spent. It is, however, equally important that the entire budget of the Palestinian Authority, including those items funded from sources other than the European Union, should be entirely visible and clear for everyone. This would ensure that in future it would be impossible to accuse the Palestinian Authority of something it is still frequently accused of, namely funding the actions of terrorist groups that are in no way conducive to peace activities. The second point I should like to make is that we would all like this process to culminate not only in peace between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, but for this peace to become a genuine peace throughout the whole region, and not the kind of peace that existed in Europe during the years of the Warsaw Pact and the Cold War. We should therefore start to consider certain methods for building trust that we have already tried out in Europe, with extremely satisfactory results. I thank you."@en1

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