Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-03-22-Speech-3-146"

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dcterms:Date	"2006-03-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Criteria for EU peace-keeping operations, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060322.13.3-146"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-03-22-Speech-3-1472
lpv:speaker	lp:Philippe Morillon2
lpv:spokenAs	member; SEDE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 chair; PECH (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3,3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-12-09--2009-07-13)3,3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3,3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2004-07-28--2007-01-15)3,3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3,3 unknown; Union pour la démocratie française (2004-07-20--2008-03-27)3,3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Mr Winkler, what is currently taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the support of the international community and, more specifically, of the European Union, is crucially important for the future of this vast country, which has been torn apart for years by civil and foreign wars. The Congolese people are today united in their profound desire for peace and stability and in their aspiration for a democracy that allows a situation of that kind. They demonstrated this by registering to vote in overwhelming numbers in July 2005 and they demonstrated this in December, during the referendum vote in favour of a draft constitution designed to put an end to the current transitional period. As head of the observation mission for this referendum, I attended the ceremonies marking the promulgation of the Constitution on 18 February, in Kinshasa, and I was able to assess the intense emotion of the participants and of the nation as a whole. A hope was born that at the end of the next stage, which will see a president and a parliament elected this summer, the country will succeed in finally emerging from the chaos and poverty in which it is still submerged. It is the interests of the Congolese people, the interests of the entire African continent and, therefore, the interests of Europe that are at stake. There is a danger, however, that those who have benefited up to now from this chaos and this poverty will not take kindly to being deprived of their power by the ballot boxes and that they may be tempted, on the one hand, to use terror tactics to prevent a lawful election and, on the other, to use force to challenge the election results. The security situation is being overseen by the UN forces, which are mainly deployed in the Eastern provinces in which organised gangs still operate. In these conditions, and in order to increase the security of forthcoming elections, the UN has sought the help of the European Union, as you mentioned. It will be up to the Council to determine what form this help will take. I am one of those who believe that this commitment will have the value of being a very powerful political signal to any potential troublemakers and that it will have what we anticipate to be a deterrent effect, and that is why I will be among those giving their support to this operation."@en1

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