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"en.20120215.22.3-442-000"2
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"Mr President, we have heard a call here, today, to enter into dialogue with President Assad. It seems to me that President Assad has crossed the red line, which means there can now be no dialogue with him. The blood of the innocent and the blood of the children being tortured in Syrian prisons preclude the possibility of talks with President Assad. This needs to be said clearly, so that from here, from the European Parliament – which is an important place for many Syrians because it is a symbol of freedom and democracy – we will send a clear message: Assad must go, Assad must be brought to account.
We need to say clearly and explicitly that the European Union faces an enormous challenge and a huge question as to whether we are just a discussion club or whether we can and are able to work actively in defence of the values around which the European Union was established. For this reason, too, it should be said clearly that it is vital we react to the position of our important partners in the global market and in global politics – Russia and China. There must be a very clear signal from the European Union that if China and Russia want to work with us – and we do, of course, want this – then both China and Russia must respect the values which we respect."@en1
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