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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-12-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU-Morocco fisheries partnership agreement - Future protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and financial compensation provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20111212.13.1-032-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-12-12-Speech-1-033-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Isabella Lövin2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament (2009-09-16--2012-02-12)3 unknown; Miljöpartiet de gröna (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DEVE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in the middle of the Sahara, Morocco has built a 2 700-kilometre-long wall which is the longest wall in the world after the Great Wall of China and is guarded by 120 000 soldiers and millions of landmines. It will also become the world’s longest conveyor belt, transporting phosphate resources out of the territory. Morocco took the country of Western Sahara in 1975 using napalm and phosphorus bombs. That was an attack on a people abandoned by their Spanish colonisers and was a contravention of international law. The fisheries agreement between the EU and Morocco, including the waters of the Western Sahara, is in fact illegal. This has been established by the legal services of this House in a recent opinion, which overrules the previous legal opinion of the Commission, which was written before it was possible to establish two things – firstly, if the EU was actually fishing in Western Sahara and, secondly, whether or not the financial payment was to the benefit of Western Sahara and if the fishing had the consent of the people of that territory. There are now two answers to those questions – 74% of the EU fleet capacity does operate in the waters of Western Sahara, and the people of this region have not been consulted on the matter. I have seen the answers to these questions, which Morocco gave to the Commission one year ago. They make it one hundred per cent clear that Morocco is not going to recognise there is even such a thing as Western Sahara. They do not even mention Western Sahara. This makes one other thing very clear – namely that Morocco does not need this agreement. Morocco has a domestic fleet that is bigger than that of Spain. They have the national fisheries policy objective of tripling fisheries’ contribution to GNP, doubling domestic employment and increasing domestic consumption of fish. In 1999, Morocco terminated the EU fisheries agreement for those very reasons, and because of the EU over-fishing that is now also taking place. It is extremely clear that Morocco only wants to keep the fisheries agreement with the EU for one reason: to legitimise Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara by making the EU an accomplice in this criminal act. It would be shameful to this House and to the entire European Union if we, as a proponent of human rights and defenders of international justice and democracy, gave our consent to this shameful agreement."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Isabella Lövin,"1 "rapporteur for the opinion of the Committee on Development"1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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