Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-04-Speech-3-015"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Iraq2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020904.1.3-015"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-04-Speech-3-0162
lpv:speaker	lp:Marco Cappato2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; NA (2001-10-03--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, one of our objectives is certainly to prevent war, to do everything possible to ensure that war is avoided, but the problem is not just defining our position for or against a possible armed intervention: the problem is seeing what Europe, the European Union, can do not just to try and avoid armed conflict but to try and stop the massacre of the Iraqi people by the dictator, Saddam Hussein, too, to do everything in its power to stop what is, in all probability, Saddam Hussein’s build-up towards the development of weapons of mass destruction, with the genuine possibility, the real danger that these weapons will be used. This is a danger against which the United States, under the Bush administration, has decided to take a stand, adopting a position which, although erroneous is quite clear, quite cut and dried. If there are alternatives – and we must do everything in our power to ensure that there are – they must be developed vigorously and resolutely. In other words, Europe, the European Union, must be the vehicle, the place, the centre where alternatives to conflict are developed: the alternatives of international law, the alternatives of the UN, the alternatives provided by what is known as multilateralism. These alternatives must be developed with determination and must not be a smokescreen to hide ambiguities or conceal a policy which is directly or indirectly benefiting Saddam Hussein. As the European Union, as the Union which has fought so hard to set up the International Criminal Court and other instruments imposing and promoting the rule of law and democracy, we must, of course, think back to Churchill’s Europe and consider what has been said in this Chamber today, but we must also make every endeavour to prevent Europe regressing to the situation under Chamberlain."@en1

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