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"Mr President, the resolution tabled here in Parliament has some very important points, but there is one issue that was not accepted by the political groups that are signing it.
The political groups signing it refused to include a paragraph in which we would have declared clear opposition to any foreign military intervention. We therefore have no guarantees that what happened in Libya will not be repeated and that the EU will not once again play a role like the one it played in Libya.
Of course, there are significant differences between Syria and Libya, but it is those very differences that tell us that civil war in Syria would, or could, mean civil war throughout the region, as we know that Israel is sounding out a possible conflict with Iran. What is therefore at stake here is the possibility of exploiting a people’s perfectly justified aspirations of democracy and freedom to reshape a new Middle East; the same chimera, in fact, that was used to justify the invasion of Iraq.
I shall conclude by saying that it is precisely because I am absolutely on the side of the Syrian people and against repression that I cannot be on the side of war."@en1
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