Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-12-14-Speech-2-047"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-12-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Council/Finnish Presidency, Chechnya, OSCE2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991214.3.2-047"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-12-14-Speech-2-0482
lpv:speaker	lp:Bertel Haarder2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-09-13--2001-11-26)3 vice-chair; ELDR (1999-07-20--2001-11-26)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2001-11-26)3 unknown; Venstre (1999-07-20--2001-11-26)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (1999-09-29--2001-11-26)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we hoped that, after the Berlin Wall came down, certain limits could be placed upon the atrocities committed in the world. That is why we intervened in Kosovo where an odious regime was in the process of driving out a whole people; and that is why we were delighted when Indonesia’s atrocities in East Timor were eventually brought to an end. But now we are seeing, in Chechnya, ruthless state terror directed against an entire population. We see an army combating terrorism by razing towns to the ground and causing hundreds of thousands of people to flee. We see a government and a presidential candidate courting popularity by pounding what they perceive as the Chechen enemy into the ground, and we see how, in the election campaign in Russia, there is almost no opposition to this cruel strategy. In the EU, we have been too weak in our protests and with our sanctions and, in that way, have betrayed the liberal and democratic forces in Russia. Thanks are due to the Council for the fact that it is now finally speaking plainly about Russia’s flagrant breach of a whole range of international obligations. It is now a question of the Council’s honouring its words. Everything must be done to enable us to help bring this barbarism to an end and to ensure that vital humanitarian aid is provided to hundreds of thousands of civilians. This century has been terrible enough, but the end of the century has also been full of promise. The issue where Chechnya is concerned is really one of whether this is to be the last tragic convulsion of an unhappy century or the start of a new century which is just as tragic."@en1

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