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"Mr President, I have to say there are people who do, and there are people who talk. I therefore want to congratulate the Council, the Commission and the High Representative on the action that they have taken. None of this was foreseeable. We are looking at something that was unimaginable.
I have sat here and listened to cheap political points being made against the High Representative, against the Member States and against the Commission via the notion that somehow, because it is an American hand rescuing someone from the rubble and saving a life, that you should brush that hand away and say ‘no neo-colonialism’ and that somehow, by attacking Haiti itself, you make the lives of the people who are suffering there better. Shame on you.
Let us make sure that we coordinate. Give the coordination over to the Americans – if it saves lives, it saves lives. Forget the political rhetoric.
Congratulations on committing this amount of money. Congratulations, Baroness Ashton, on not playing to the audience and using up air space to get into Haiti just to go there and show that you are there. What does that do? It does absolutely nothing. Therefore, angry on behalf of those people who want rescuing, let us coordinate with the Americans. Let us kick the butt of the United Nations so that it delivers aid, and let us stop making cheap political points."@en1
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