Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-25-Speech-3-207"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Cooperation with ACP countries involved in armed conflicts2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001025.8.3-207"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-25-Speech-3-2082
lpv:speaker	lp:Gary Titley2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I also welcome both the Commission communication and the report we have here today. One key message in all this is the need for consistency. The European Union has a number of activities under its umbrella: trade, Lomé agreements, CFSP, external policies and far too often one part is not necessarily consistent with another. Consistency must be our primary objective. Secondly, conflict prevention must be a priority of the European Union. We are now getting the measures in place. We have the High Representative, we have the planning and early warning unit in the Council. They must now emphasise that it is conflict prevention we need to focus on rather than intervening militarily after a conflict has got out of control. In particular, we must give due emphasis to things such as scarcity of water resources as a cause of conflict. Commission policy should be aimed at ensuring that we enhance water supplies, not diminish them as has sometimes been the case. As has been mentioned before, we need to stress the importance of good governance and democracy. That should be a part of conditionality and we should demand of Member States that they do not support politicians for short-term requirements if they do not meet the essential requirements of good governance and democracy. Far too often, we are prepared to support one against another group to the long-term detriment of peace in a particular region. Finally, what we must do of course, is to stem the flow of arms into these regions, not just by actions against small arms. I would like to see, as I outlined in my report last month, action taken against arms brokers throughout the European Union. In many countries, there are no controls over the activities of arms brokers. They are able to trade as they will, and in almost every conflict you will find arms brokers behind the proliferation of arms. It is crucial as part of the EU code of conduct that we license arms brokers and start to control their activities. It is no good governments tidying up exports if we allow private individuals to act in they way they are doing. Similarly, we should also look at licensed manufacturing. It is no good having rules on manufacturing within the EU if EU companies are able to license production outside as a way of getting round the controls. I welcome this report, but would stress that we will not get anywhere unless we are prepared to stem the flow of arms into regions of conflict. That requires much tougher action than we have been prepared to indulge in up to now."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Labour Party (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 member; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2000-04-11--2002-01-14)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2000-02-16--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2003-05-20)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Titley (PSE )."1

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