Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-14-Speech-3-257"
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"Conflict prevention and crisis management employing all civil and, if necessary, military instruments is an extremely important priority for the EU. This has been reflected in the conclusion from the European Councils up to and including the Nice Summit.
The Swedish Presidency is actively proceeding with the task assigned by the European Council in Nice. The work is quite complicated both in the civil and the military spheres as the EU is creating new resources and structures. The work in the civil sphere is currently focused on achieving the concrete aims established at the European Council in Feira, i.e. by 2003 to be able to mobilise up to 5 000 police for international assignments across the spectrum of operations to prevent conflict and manage crises. It must be possible to mobilise 1 000 police within 30 days.
The work in other prioritised areas, as established in Feira – particularly with regard to strengthening the rule of law, but also rescue services and civil administration – will continue.
In addition, the Swedish Presidency has clarified the fact that it is appropriate, as the EU’s civil crisis management continues to develop, also to establish other areas within the framework of civil crisis management in which EU resources may need to be developed or used more effectively. Such areas may include expertise in democracy and human rights plus monitors and observers of various kinds.
Mechanisms for improved cooperation with voluntary organisations which participate in conflict prevention and in initiatives to promote peace after a conflict, such as improvements to the EU’s diplomatic instrument for conflict prevention, will also be drawn up in the European programme on conflict prevention, which is expected to be approved by the European Council in Gothenburg.
Alongside this, the EU has reformed and concentrated the work of its monitoring missions and placed it under the control of the Secretary-General. Moreover, the monitoring mission recently showed its value when it was deployed in Presevo Valley.
All this work is moving in the same direction, and has the same aims, as the European Parliament’s recommendation on establishing a civil peace corps. The Council prefers to complete the aforementioned work, i.e. an operational capacity in the field, before the end of the year with the aims and deadlines set out by the European Council. The Council will then be better able to assess what other arrangements might be warranted or necessary."@en1
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