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"Mr President, the European Union has done a great deal for Sudan and South Sudan. It heavily funded South Sudan’s access to independence by supporting the 2005 comprehensive peace agreement. It was either that or war. We were well aware of that. At the time, problems had not yet been solved. Not a single problem had been solved: neither citizenship, nor currency, nor the question of debt, nor, above all, the question of the distribution of oil between the two countries, Sudan and South Sudan. Now it is exploding in our face! However, what has been exploding in our face and worrying me far more for a year is China because, at international level, it controls the entire oil industry, from extraction to refinery operations, and it is buying the oil. One would say that, all of a sudden, the European Union, which has done so much, has, somehow, disappeared from the scene. It is somewhat embarrassing.
I welcome UN Security Council Resolution 2046, which is a huge step forward and which we are going to be able to follow. However, I have three wishes. The first is that the European Parliament, finally, will 1) follow up election observation missions in a country such as this which, it was clear, was going to be fragile, 2) send missions, 3) provide follow up and 4) receive the South Sudanese here. My second wish is that the European Union, which is doing so much, which has done so much, and which is continuing to do a great deal thanks, in particular, to our special representative, will enjoy excellent visibility in everyone’s eyes. Then, I would like the position of the European Union, which is a balanced position between the North and the South, to remain in place, in spite of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. Finally, I would like priority to be given to the humanitarian emergency, especially in relation to the Blue Nile State and Southern Kordofan. What is happening there is unimaginable, and we have not succeeded, so far, in gaining access to these regions, which are suffering tragedies on a daily basis."@en1
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