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"Mr President, the rapporteur should be congratulated on the excellent work that was done so intelligently. A good proposal such as this is actually crying out for implementation in practice, and we should commit our policies to it wholeheartedly for our own sake. The report states quite rightly our own importance as the largest donor of aid to many ACP countries, a fact which is not yet sufficiently reflected at political level in the resolution of conflicts. This must be the starting point for any action we take. For that reason, I welcome the fact that the report speaks about the importance of positive conditionality with a high level of self-confidence. There are good grounds for that.
The profile that crises have assumed in the last few decades has decidedly changed. The UN, which was originally established to respond to conflicts between states, is seeking once again to get a grip on managing the increasingly common crises taking place internally in countries. For this reason the EU, as an economic and political partner, now has an enormous responsibility and, furthermore, plenty of scope for influencing situations.
The trend worldwide would appear to be that more and more conflicts have a religious dimension: Kosovo, Chechnya, southern Sudan, Northern Ireland, East Timor, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Kashmir and, one of the worst in recent times, the Moluccas, in Indonesia. In the West this is not completely understood. We are easily led to believe that when religion plays a part we are dealing with a private matter. But in these countries religious tensions have been used for political purposes. Mr President, we need the right tools to solve this delicate problem. One important aim would be, in my opinion, to create the post of human rights observer, or representative, who would report to the EU, particularly on the issue of religious tensions. The EU would also have to put pressure on governments, determinedly and systematically, to allow international human rights observers access to countries at war to conduct an impartial, neutral study of conflicts. We must also use all the means available to us to demand that governments should always commit to ensuring the safe passage of those taking humanitarian aid to various regions."@en1
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