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"Mr President, we are obliged to remain engaged within this region and we are obligated to the people of Yemen for three main reasons. Firstly, as ever, it is worth remembering that the problems of today are rooted in the legacy of empire – in Yemen’s case toxic legacies of the Ottoman and British Empires. Secondly, it is the right thing to do. There is a humanitarian disaster where we can assist the UN’s efforts. If we do not, I do not see anybody else stepping up to the plate in any serious way to state-build. Thirdly, if we do not, Yemen will continue even more to become a breeding ground for radicalisation and terrorism against each other and indeed against us.
The fact is that, despite our fairly recent efforts as a European Union, Yemen is not a functioning state. It is this failure of corruption and failure to provide basic services that has so disenfranchised and disengaged the people of Yemen and we must continue to engage in state building. It is not as though we do not have the expertise and resources to that. We have put forward a number of ideas with this. We must be in for the long haul."@en1
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