Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-01-31-Speech-3-132"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-01-31"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Plan Colombia2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010131.6.3-132"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-01-31-Speech-3-1332
lpv:speaker	lp:Patricia McKENNA2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would just like to endorse everything that Mr Howitt has said. Plan Colombia is promoted as a means of combating of drug production and trafficking, but since drug eradication and crop spraying started six years ago, the actual coca plantations have almost trebled, which shows that this is not an effective method. It does not work and it is also an ecological disaster. Since the drug wars started in the 80s, violence has increased in a terrible way in Colombia. Seventy-five to eighty per cent of the killings are committed by the paramilitary forces to protect big farmers and oil companies. The Colombian Government pretends that it is trying to combat paramilitarianism but in fact it is turning a blind an eye to it. It knows very well that there are clear links between the paramilitaries and the armed forces. If military equipment is increased in accordance with what Plan Colombia is proposing, it will clearly reach the paramilitaries. It will increase the massacres; it will increase the disappearances; it will increase the violations committed against ordinary innocent people. Any plan which includes a military element is not a solution for Colombia. It just exacerbates the situation. Many Member States have a major problem with the military component and it is very cynical to say that we want to help the social area when clearly this plan is a military plan."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PECH (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Green Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Member States of ASEAN, South-east Asia and the Republic of Korea (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"McKenna (Verts/ALE )."1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph