Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-12-15-Speech-2-189"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-12-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Conclusions of the Foreign Affairs Council on the Middle East peace process, including the situation in eastern Jerusalem (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20091215.14.2-189"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-12-15-Speech-2-1902
lpv:speaker	lp:Proinsias De Rossa2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, there are two commitments which I specifically want to welcome in the Council statement and which have the potential to create a new dynamic: support for the Palestinian Authority’s two-year programme for ending the Israeli occupation and establishing the Palestinian state, and the Union’s readiness, when appropriate, to recognise a Palestinian state. Last week, I led an official European Parliament delegation to the occupied Palestinian territories where, once again, I saw with my own eyes the apartheid system being implemented by Israel against Palestinians, along with the dispossession and destruction of their homes, their lands, their water and their places of worship. Within hours of the publication of the Council statement, the permission my delegation had for going to Gaza was rescinded. That is not the act of a friendly state. It is certainly an interference in the democratic right of this Parliament to have decent and democratic relations with our opposite numbers, elected by the Palestinian people. We found widespread despondency and hopelessness amongst the people we met and in the areas we visited in Hebron, East Jerusalem and Ramallah. Where there is hopelessness, there will be violence. We can make progress now or we can let the situation slide into more bitter violence, which will drive moderate Palestinian politicians out of leadership. That is the choice we have to make. I would appeal to both the Council and to Baroness Ashton, whom I wish well, to reinvigorate the Union’s engagement with this process – not just looking towards the Quartet to reinvigorate its engagement with the process – and to put in place a timetable coinciding with the Palestinian authority’s two-year timetable for the implementation of the principles we outlined, so bravely in my view, last week. We must vigorously defend human rights. We must act. We must use access to our markets to incentivise Israel. I am not talking about sanctions. I am talking about ensuring that access to our market is used as an incentive to ensure that Israel acts in relation to its international responsibilities. We must also, finally, persuade the United States to urgently re-engage on the same basis we outlined last week."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Proinsias De Rossa (S&D )."1
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