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"Madam President, as the Council and the Commission have recognised, we are witnessing an escalation of blind violence and indiscriminate hatred in the Middle East. It has reached its climax in the stoning of human beings and in the killing and murdering of children and innocent victims.
The international community’s appeals for dialogue and peace have been ignored or sidelined. It is therefore urgent to press ahead with the initiatives currently under way. I have in mind the joint Jordano-Egyptian plan and the Mitchell Committee’s conclusions calling for an immediate cessation of violence and the resumption of dialogue aimed at a peaceful solution to this conflict.
If there is no response to these appeals, the international community must not remain unmoved by this display of violence, deep-rooted hatred and the ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’ culture. Nor can we remain blind deaf and dumb to it.
In my view, Madam President, if the two initiatives now on the table fail to bear fruit, we shall have to come up with a formula to allow us to break the current deadlock.
The President-in-Office of the Council of Ministers – I refer to the Defence Ministers, who met informally on Monday prior to meeting with the Foreign Ministers – has stated that by the end of the year the European Union will be in a position to become involved in crisis management situations on a case by case basis. It should be borne in mind, however, that a large proportion of our resources is currently committed in the Balkans.
I believe we cannot afford to wait until the end of the year. If the initiatives now under way fail to bear fruit, we should consider other alternatives, such as a United Nations’ buffer force. Alternatively, as Mr Patten rightly suggested, we could use the instruments available to the European Union, namely the association agreements.
We should not overlook other possibilities such as the International Court in The Hague, or the Human Rights Commission in Geneva. It would be best not to have to resort to them, however, because the parties do really wish to return to the negotiating table and seek a peace which must be based on justice."@en1
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