Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-04-26-Speech-3-140"
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"en.20060426.14.3-140"2
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"Mr President, our democracies are based on non-negotiable principles: peace and freedom, mutual respect, equality and, if possible, fraternity. It was the tragedies of history, and particularly of the Second World War, that finally made our respectful elders acknowledge the need firmly to establish peace on our continent. The act of remembrance still makes for a healthier world, and to refuse to accept the lessons that history has taught us by denying its events means running the risk of being condemned to relive those events.
For the sake of that, we, as Europeans, cannot tolerate the repeated remarks made by the President of Iran denying the Holocaust, laying claim to a myth and calling for the disappearance of Israel. It would be disgraceful on our part if we were to trivialise those remarks and to ignore them in the name of goodness knows what intolerable
or real economy. Everyone, including the people of Iran and ourselves, must shoulder their responsibilities and insist that Mr Ahmadinejad retracts his unspeakable statements. We cannot let a country that endorses those kinds of remarks by its President take part in an international sporting event on European soil. Equally, we could not tolerate its presence in Nuremberg, as that would be an insult to the memory of the Holocaust martyrs."@en1
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