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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-12-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation of European Council of 10-11 December 1999 in Helsinki2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991201.7.3-078"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-12-01-Speech-3-0792
lpv:speaker	lp:Professor Sir Neil MacCORMICK2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, my remarks will concern security aspects of today’s debate. Members of the House may not be aware of an ill-judged intervention into national politics by the Secretary-General of NATO today. Lord Robertson just recently attacked as isolationist the Scottish National Party’s policy concerning NATO membership. That policy, I should tell you, is equivalent in effect to the stance of Austria, Finland and Sweden, and also Ireland, though the occasion of Lord Robertson's intervention was Ireland's accession to the Partnership for Peace Programme. I hope that the President-in-Office of the Council would deplore, as I do, a party political intervention by the Secretary-General of NATO, the logical implication of which is an attack on the defence policy of Finland and other Member States. For the record, I should like to make it clear that, in common with all our colleagues in the Green European Free Alliance, we in the SNP are committed to the idea of collective security in Europe and welcome developments the Council will pursue to this end. But we are rootedly opposed to the maintenance of nuclear weapons in Scottish coastal waters, or coastal waters anywhere in Europe, or the land of Europe. This is a determining factor for defence policy as far as we are concerned, and I do not for a moment imagine that Ireland is in the process of developing a policy aimed at giving hospitality to nuclear weapons in their waters. Indeed, Mr Collins assured me that this has nothing to do with NATO membership. I hope that in developing our crisis management policy, we in Europe will think carefully as to where, if anywhere, nuclear weapons belong in it. I do not think they belong at all."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFCO (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Scottish National Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Japan (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"MacCormick (Greens/ALE )."1

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