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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Development cooperation with South Africa2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000515.6.1-099"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-05-15-Speech-1-1002
lpv:speaker	lp:Lennart Sacrédeus2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Kristdemokraterna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 vice-chair; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I want first of all to thank Mr Martínez Martínez for all the hard work he has put into this regulation. The European Parliament cannot possibly support cutting development aid to South Africa by ten per cent. Of course, I deeply regret the fact that the Council sat on this urgent matter for eight months so that there has been no legal basis for cooperation work since the beginning of the year. Relations between the European Union and South Africa must not be damaged. South Africa ought to – and must – be the European Union’s greatest and best friend in Africa, for South Africa will play a quite decisive role in the whole continent’s future. In times of large-scale conflict on the African continent, for example in Congo, Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Rwanda and Algeria – not to mention the intense unrest of recent months in Zimbabwe and the hatred which President Mugabe has been stirring up there – South Africa and the country’s remarkably strong democratic institutions constitute a constructive and stabilising factor in leading Africa towards a brighter and more peaceful future. South Africa has a vigorous constitution with a clear commitment to human rights and freedoms. The country has a constitutional court whose judgements are respected by the president. Free elections have been held. There is freedom of the press, and the office of president was in a peaceful and orderly state when the country’s great reconciler and nation builder, Nelson Mandela, left it. The Truth Commission, led by the Anglican bishop, Desmond Tutu, has demonstrated its willingness to strive for genuine reconciliation in South Africa. Sweden’s prime minister called the Cairo Conference, held earlier this year between the EU and Africa, “the start of something new and great”. A democratic and reconciled South Africa is the prerequisite for this “something new and great”, in which Africa and the countries of Europe meet on a new and equal footing and look forward, instead of remaining stuck in the old colonial period. South Africa is a necessary engine of democracy for the whole of South Africa and for Africa in its entirety. It can show that it is freedom, together with democratic and strong ethical and moral values, through which Africa can advance furthest."@en1

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