Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-09-06-Speech-3-158"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-09-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in the Middle East (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060906.21.3-158"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-09-06-Speech-3-1592
lpv:speaker	lp:Philippe Morillon2
lpv:spokenAs	member; SEDE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 chair; PECH (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-12-09--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2004-07-28--2007-01-15)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Union pour la démocratie française (2004-07-20--2008-03-27)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon will be strengthened, and the European Union will play an important part in it. We are right to be pleased about this. We must also be aware that, in order to be useful in such a difficult situation, the troops deployed will have to be respected, and, in order for that to happen, they will have to be strong, that is to say, they will need to have the resources appropriate to their mission and to have the right and the duty to implement them not only in the case of self-defence, that is to say, when their own soldiers are in danger, but also when the spirit or the letter of the mission may demand it. We learnt this lesson in the Balkans, with tragic effect. We must never forget it. Nor must we forget what all the peacemakers in Lebanon, as in the whole of the Middle East, are waiting for: it is not the UN, which has been present for too long and which has been rendered powerless for too long, it is not France on its own, it is not Italy, it is the European Union. You rightly said so, Mr Tuomioja. I bear witness, in this regard, to the effectiveness of the action that has been carried out for weeks in the Democratic Republic of Congo by the European force that was deployed there to support the UN’s action. Without its presence, I believe that I can say – as you know, Commissioner – that Kinshasa would now be torn apart. That is why I am calling on the Council and the Commission to check whether the European forces that are to be deployed in Lebanon could not be organised in a similar way, thus enabling the European Union to do what is expected of it, namely to exercise its own responsibility. Thus, if we are not merely indecisive, then why, for example, do we not immediately deploy a European fleet off the Lebanese coast? Euromarfor would give us the means to do this. No, Mr Cohn-Bendit, you are not a childish dreamer, and if you are, then I am even more of a child and more of a dreamer than you."@en1

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