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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are, once again, in one of those debates typical of this Parliament: a debate about a real dilemma. The situation in Syria is complex. The situation in Syria is problematic. We do not know whether to intervene or not. It is, in fact, very easy to know what to do, so let us start with the simple things.
It is simple that 200 000 refugees have left Syria. We have the tools to handle this; it is not true to say that we do not. The European Refugee Fund has not been completely spent: we have millions of euro for resettling the refugees in those camps and for improving conditions in the camps. Moreover, we have the refugees who are inside Syria itself, who are the result of the EU’s past blunders because there are still hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Iraq War in the town of Jaramana, near Damascus, mainly from minorities: Christians, Sabaeans, Mandeans, Yazidi and Zoroastrians. They are 70 kilometres from the Lebanese border and a humanitarian corridor could be opened. However, there are 200 ... 200 Palestinian refugees in the camp of Al Hol, whom we have promised to resettle; they are 10 kilometres from the border. We could also establish a humanitarian corridor 10 kilometres from the Iraqi border or 30 kilometres from the Turkish border.
However, what I should like to say to Lady Ashton, above all, is that we do not need a humanitarian corridor because the EU has a border with Syria. An EU Member State – which currently holds the Presidency of the Council – has a maritime border. Lady Ashton only has to talk to the Cypriot Presidency and say that, instead of Cyprus allowing arms through to al-Assad, as it has already done, what it must do is open its maritime border to receive refugees there and then, using a European distribution key, as has already been suggested here, distribute these refugees around the EU, and prepare them and help them, so that we can support democratic transition in Syria. All she has to do is talk to the Cypriot Presidency, which has not been doing anything."@en1
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