Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-09-27-Speech-2-588-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-09-27"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Geoffrey Van Orden2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I suppose the question for us is really what can the EU contribute usefully to developments in the Middle East? Baroness Ashton, you have expressed your view on how important the role of the EU has been, but I am more interested in practical results. On this I agree with what Mr Salafranca was saying. You say you want to get Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table. Well, yes, we all do. Israel says she has long been open to resuming negotiations, so what pressure have you brought to bear on the Palestinians? The EU is the most significant financial supporter of the Palestinian Authority, with some EUR 2 billion over the past four years. What action is being taken to leverage that financial influence to bring the Palestinians to the conference table? Where is the return on this investment? The unilateral action by the Palestinian Authority at the United Nations is a deliberate provocation. Let us not forget, by the way, that Yasser Arafat declared Palestinian independence in October 1988. What is clear is that every time Israel has made a major concession, it has been greeted with further violence and seen as a sign of weakness. Look at what happened after the withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 and after Netanyahu’s ten-month suspension of settlement construction in the West Bank in 2009. We have a small window of opportunity before the situation escalates. The EU needs to act responsibly."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Geoffrey Van Orden (ECR )."1
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