Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-11-17-Speech-3-134"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Chechnya2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991117.5.3-134"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-17-Speech-3-1352
lpv:speaker	lp:Daniel Cohn-bendit2
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Les Verts-Europe-Ecologie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Russian tanks are currently crushing a nation, just as they already crushed and attempted to crush the people of Hungary in 1956, of Germany in 1963, and we can give other examples, up to Prague in 1968. Let us forget the hypocrisy and the double talk. The Russian policy being carried out in Chechnya is an old tactic. It is founded upon the Stalinist policy which shoved whole populations behind the Urals, without the right to return home, twenty or thirty years ago. And if we say that we do not wish to exclude Russia from Europe, that is true. But when the Russians say that this is an internal problem, we must tell them that today we all live in the same world, with shared values. And it is in the name of such values that we declare that we have an entitlement to political intervention, humanitarian intervention, in the face of this Russian barbarism. Yes, there has been terrorism. But who committed these acts of terrorism in Moscow? Do we know? Russian history claimed that Katyn was an atrocity committed by the Germans, until it was discovered that it was in fact committed by the Russians. I do not know who committed the terrible criminal acts in Russia, but I do know that the women and children of Chechnya who are being massacred today surely did not commit acts of terrorism. This is why, when we Europeans say that we are freezing aid to Russia, it is not with the intention of excluding Russia, but of integrating it into a shared system of values. Let us not give in to the blackmail which says "if we do not help Yeltsin or Putin, then we will have worse", for what could be worse than the annihilation of Grozny and the annihilation of Chechnya? Do you think that Mr Lebed or any other crazy man would do something other than this? This is why I am asking the Council and the Commission to be honest in saying to the Russians that if they do not change their policy, then we shall change our aid policy. Obviously, we shall provide the Russians with food aid, but we shall not assist a government which looks just like the old Russian Government. The fact is, Mr Putin looks just like all the members and chairmen of the KGB. I wished to say this in the presence of Mr Armatov, the Chechen Minister of Foreign Affairs, who will have, as he listens to us, an idea of what democracy in Europe is. ( )"@en1
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