Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-15-Speech-3-036"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Afghanistan: one year after the Bonn Agreement (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030115.3.3-036"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-15-Speech-3-0372
lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Marie Coûteaux2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (2001-12-11--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, there are so many worrying things on the international scene that ought to spur us to action that we no longer know which way to look. Let us not forget Afghanistan, which today is beginning to look like a caricature, a caricature of the US imperium. It is clearly a misfortune for any nation to be in a geostrategic or petrostrategic area like the Afghan people are, and this has obviously been the case for a long time. They have endured the British empire, they have endured the Soviet empire; today they are enduring the US empire, but in spite of everything there is a great difference in the nature of things today because, armed as it is with its clear conscience, the US empire can get away with anything, to the point, for example, of calling a wedding party an armed band and destroying a whole village as we saw a few months ago. Since 11 September, the country has in fact been a caricature of a clear conscience. We have not even had the courage – because Europe has clearly abandoned the idea of playing any role other than humanitarian aid – to denounce the fraud of destroying half a country because a criminal takes refuge there. If one day some hothead came from the US and fled to the US after destroying one of the towers in the la Défense district in Paris, it would not occur to me to recommend that my government go and destroy part of the United States of America and then appoint a governor there. I say governor because Mr Karzai is clearly little more than a US governor. I hope that one day Europe will want to play a part, that Europe will stop following the lead of the US, that Europe will at least stop preventing the Member States from playing their own part."@en1

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