Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-10-05-Speech-2-133"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-10-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EC-South Africa trade, development and cooperation agreement2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991005.8.2-133"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-05-Speech-2-1342
lpv:speaker	lp:Arlette Laguiller2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2001-05-09)3 member; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Lutte ouvrière (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, cooperating with South Africa and helping it to put its under-development behind it should be a fundamental duty for Europe, whose ruling classes greatly benefited in the past from the pillage of that country’s mineral wealth and from the exploitation of its poverty-stricken masses. I will certainly not join the European institutions in their displays of self-satisfaction as they have even had the effrontery to claim that they contributed significantly to the defeat of the apartheid regime in South Africa, whilst in fact, the great powers, including European ones, were overwhelmingly responsible for keeping a notorious regime in power for such a long time. It was the struggle of the black masses which put an end to institutionalised segregation, but unfortunately, they have not been able to end the social segregation which causes that country’s workers and the unemployed to continue living in poverty. The only thing that the European institutions are offering South Africa in terms of cooperation is a trade agreement, carefully negotiated so that it favours European business and industrial interests, an agreement which, in South Africa, will only profit the tiny minority of exporters of precious stones and agricultural produce, who were already the main beneficiaries of apartheid. Moreover, the signatories to the agreement make no secret of this and say that, I quote, “The measures on cooperation aim to facilitate the re-structuring and modernisation of South African industry and to stimulate its competitiveness.” Well, workers of any country will have understood that this means redundancies and greater unemployment! Our solidarity goes out then to South Africa’s workers, to its underprivileged people and not to those, whether over there or in Europe, who enrich themselves as a result of these people’s poverty."@en1

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