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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Statement by Mr Solana2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991117.2.3-041"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-17-Speech-3-0422
lpv:speaker	lp:Pierre Schori2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-07-22--2000-07-31)3,3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2000-07-31)3,3 chair; Delegation for relations with Japan (1999-07-22--2000-07-31)3,3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-22--2000-07-31)3,3 unknown; Socialdemokratiska arbetarepartiet (1999-07-20--2000-07-31)3,3 vice-chair; PES (1999-07-20--2000-07-31)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr Solana, you will not be a Lord Grey in any sense; you are very welcome here. Mr Solana, wearing your two hats as “Mr CFSP” and Secretary- General of the WEU, you are going to have a great responsibility in our common endeavour to establish a European order of peace. First on the agenda is the matter of complying with the Cologne decisions on crisis management and conflict-prevention initiatives. These decisions also include the Member States’ undertakings to establish a specific military capacity in such a way that the EU’s ability to take credible initiatives in accordance with the principles of the UN’s Charter is reinforced, and this without any Member State’s interests being compromised and without the EU’s taking on NATO’s basic tasks. Right now, a lot of energy is being spent on crisis management, something you talked a lot about. We are seeing more and more proposals on the way. Against this background, I should like to ask you the following question. You said that our citizens feel that we ought to be able to intervene in a crisis. Yes, but I think our citizens want us to be able to intervene before crises break out at all. My question is therefore as follows: do you share the view that measures to prevent conflict are at least as important as the crisis management which in fact kicks in at a stage where politics and diplomacy have failed? What measures are you therefore going to take in the area of conflict prevention so that you can, as it were, start taking charge of preventing fires rather than turning out to fight them? The Cologne decision ought not to lead to our one day finding ourselves in the same situation as my second home country, Switzerland, where, following studies of possible threats to the country over the next decade, the conclusion was reached that Switzerland is well equipped to deal with dangers which no longer exist. I would mention in this context that the Conflict Prevention Network (CPN), established by Michel Rocard on the initiative of the European Parliament, warned, long before the Kosovo conflict, that war was going to break out, and that a variety of visiting delegations from Parliament did the same thing. The CPN still exists, but the problem, then as now, is that there is no structure in the Commission or in the Council which can effectively utilise the experience and expertise of the CPN and others."@en1

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