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"Ladies and gentlemen, the Arab Spring began a year ago and brought freedom to many of our southern neighbours. In Syria, too, the people went out on the streets and demonstrated peacefully, full of hope for a better life, just as in the other countries.
I would be grateful if you would all begin this part-session by observing a minute’s silence, both for the victims in Syria and for the victims of terrorism and of this natural disaster.
We are seeing how a brutal dictator has set his face against freedom and instead decided on open warfare against his own people. More than 8 000 people have died in Syria this year and, as we are all bitterly reading and hearing about every day, the bloodshed shows no sign of stopping.
The people of Europe, of the entire world, are all aghast at the inhuman brutality of the regime and the trouble the international community is having in stopping these atrocities. The European Parliament is calling on President Al-Assad to at least allow in humanitarian aid for the civilian population.
I believe that you will certainly share my view that we should call on the international community to give its full backing to the joint UN-Arab League Special Envoy Kofi Annan in his difficult mission and to come together to campaign for humanitarian aid for the civilian population.
We are appealing, at the same time, for all the veto-holding powers on the UN Security Council not to make their dealings on the Syrian issue dependent on tactical political considerations.
Yesterday, once again, was the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Terrorism. Eight years ago, on 11 March 2004, one of the worst terrorist attacks ever to take place on European soil took place in Madrid. One hundred and ninety-one people were killed at Atocha railway station, and a further 1 800 badly injured. Today we commemorate all the victims of terrorism – from Madrid to London, from Bologna to Utøya.
We, the elected representatives of the peoples of Europe, stand shoulder to shoulder with the families torn apart by these barbarous acts, shoulder to shoulder with all those who have lost relatives and friends. Our thoughts go out to the survivors of terrorist attacks who suffer physical and mental wounds sustained in the attacks, many for the rest of their lives. The European Parliament definitively condemns all forms of terrorism.
In its unpredictability and cowardly anonymity, terrorism is one of the most repugnant phenomena of modern times. We will determinedly do everything we can to support the victims and the survivors of terrorist attacks.
Yesterday also saw Japan, and all of us, commemorate the tsunami disaster of 11 March 2011. One year on, we can all still see images of this terrible tragedy and the nuclear disaster unleashed by the tsunami. After adopting its agenda, the European Parliament will debate this event and its consequences as the first item today. In any event, at the beginning of our part-session today, our sympathy goes out to the countless victims of this terrible natural disaster and this enormous nuclear disaster."@en1
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