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"Mr President, I will not reply to Mr Purvis personally. I think that his way of perceiving events that have taken place or which are still ongoing in Egypt is very selective and that is up to him. Unfortunately, the future, as indeed the past, is unlikely to prove him right. As far as Afghanistan is concerned, I still believe that we may frankly be disappointed by the policy pursued by the European Union and, in particular, by the Commission and the Council as regards Pakistan which, as we know, is crucial for the future of Afghanistan.
Until we adopt a very firm policy towards Pakistan, the Taliban will continue to do what they have been doing for years. The news is still fresh: the Taliban recaptured a town in the centre of Afghanistan. The first thing they saw fit to do was to bomb and destroy the hospital and to bomb and destroy the centre for humanitarian aid. This is a daily occurrence in Afghanistan. This is the Afghanistan we will continue to support indirectly until we have a tough policy against all those states which continue to support it, starting of course with Pakistan, but not forgetting Saudi Arabia and some other States.
I would therefore like to ask the Commission if it could give us any clear, precise indications as to the policies it intends to implement with regard to states which help this renegade state to remain in place. We know about the disasters, we have spoken about them very often, starting with the situation of women, but unfortunately they go far beyond that. They include the exclusion of the whole of Afghan youth from any form of education worthy of the name. We are very well aware that the Afghan version of the Koranic schools has nothing to do with education. It is therefore high time we got some concrete answers from the Commission and the Council, which is once again absent."@en1
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