Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-14-Speech-3-170"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-03-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Conflict prevention and crisis management2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010314.5.3-170"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-03-14-Speech-3-1712
lpv:speaker	lp:Michel Rocard2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 chair; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Representative of the Council, Commissioner, once our debates and our speeches get to the point, we only talk about crisis management. Crisis prevention is the icing on the cake of all political debates because prevention is better than cure. We talk about peace, war and security but we do not know what to do. And this leitmotiv presented by our diplomats, our generals and our politicians is without substance. I would like to say, Mr President, Commissioner, that the concept of crisis prevention will remain devoid of meaning as long as we do not have the tools and the instruments to implement it. The key to conflict prevention is anticipation and we will only achieve this if we have specific strategic monitoring supported by genuine geopolitical and social observations instruments which are appropriate for the permanent monitoring of ethnic, linguistic and religious tensions. Yet, Mr President, Commissioner, the European Parliament, which has done a lot of work on this, voted in favour of two motions for resolution on this subject. One, in 1996, called on the Commission to create a (CPN) to take on the role of strategic monitoring so that the analyses, diagnoses and proposals could be inter-European. The Commission set this up in 1998 and extended it in 2000. I would like to ask the Commissioner if the Commission is satisfied with the work that has been done. What lessons has it learned? What use has it been able to make of these reports? I would like to ask the Representative of the Council if the Council knows about this work. Has it ever, in spite of the Commission’s bureaucratic oppression, known about this work? Has it been of use to you? The other resolution was incorporated in 1997 and 1998 in two reports on Africa, one by Mr Martens and the other by me. This resolution called on the Commission to propose to the ACP countries, on the occasion of the negotiations which were to lead to the Cotonou partnership agreement, that Europe should provide finance and expertise to enable four regional observatories of ethnic, linguistic and religious tension to operate in Africa. Without such tools of anticipation, which Mrs Lindh spoke of earlier, though she did not actually talk about tools, we manage crises, but we do not see them coming. The Commission did not act on this suggestion. Nor did the Council. The idea, like the need, is still there. Does the Commission intend to take it up? Has the Council buried it?"@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Crisis prevention network"1

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