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"Mr President, we completely share the High Representative’s indignation and horror at what is ongoing in Syria, and all the frustrations at the difficulties we encounter. The sensitivities, or rather the temperaments, of some of my colleagues in my group might be different, some more inclined to intervene more quickly, others more aware of – well everybody is aware of – all the complexities of the situation, but according to our temperaments, some might or might not demand quicker interventions.
My personal hopes are, High Representative, that the course you have chosen brings improvements and contributes to halting the horrors which are ongoing and that we finally see the departure of a leader who certainly, morally, has become completely illegitimate.
I would like to say a few things now about the Arab Spring, or what we call the Arab Spring. Of course, no two situations are alike and the situation in each of those countries is different. Myself, being a special friend of, or having a special tender feeling for Morocco, I am sometimes a little bit concerned that it might be overlooked because everything is going too smoothly, so to say, and that would be a pity. But that is not the most important thing right now.
Right now, what I would like to warn against is excessive pessimism. The elections might not have given all the results we would have hoped for, but at least in most of the countries where they took place, they have taken place in rather satisfactory circumstances, although there are question marks about the way things have gone in Algeria. I believe that the people in those countries deserve our continuing support, and one of the worst things we could do is turn our backs on them because they have not one hundred percent voted the way we would have ideally liked them to do.
Finally, on the Middle East, there are two short things I would like to say: first of all, it should be clear to everybody that my entire political group is excessively committed to the possibility for Israel to develop in a secure way. At the same time, we are just as committed to seeing a two-state solution and very worried at seeing how this is becoming, on the ground, more and more difficult."@en1
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