Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-26-Speech-3-076"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Outcome of the European Council (Brussels, 21-22 March, 2003)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030326.5.3-076"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-26-Speech-3-0772
lpv:speaker	lp:Marianne Thyssen2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Canada (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams (2001-10-01--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-07--2004-04-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I deplore the war and I deplore the fact that it started without a UN mandate and without having exhausted all the ways of achieving a peaceful solution. I also, however, deplore the challenging behaviour of Saddam Hussein who has continually managed to ignore the UN resolutions. Most of all I feel sorry for the victims and regret the human suffering that is without doubt much greater than we can imagine. Regretting and hoping that the war will soon be over is not all that there remains for us to do, however. We still have our responsibility for the future. We must try to alleviate the suffering by immediately making every effort to provide humanitarian aid. We must strengthen our relationships with Arab countries and give the Mediterranean dialogue a real chance to succeed. We must invest as much as possible in a definitive peace process in the Middle East. We must also not forget about repairing transatlantic relationships, whilst enforcing respect for our autonomy. I hope to find this all in the resolution we will be voting on tomorrow. Last but not least, however, we must do all we can to eliminate the divisions in the European Union. Our Member States must use the old, tried-and-trusted European formula and talk to each other, even on matters relating to foreign affairs and security policy. It is high time all the Member States together took another look at the common foreign and security policy and the defence policy, and the best place for that is the European Convention. There is a working party there that is actively working on foreign policy, and there is also a working party there that is actively working on defence policy. The people in the Convention are motivated to talk to each other and to everyone; they are not divided into groups according to the fault lines that the Iraq crisis has exposed. Let us encourage the Convention to reorganise its powers and its structure in such a way that the political will to cooperate is at least given a chance and encouraged to develop where it is lacking, and let us force the heads of government to sit down together, particularly when things get difficult."@en1

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