Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-04-Speech-2-159"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-09-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Progress of the 12 candidate countries in 2000 (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010904.7.2-159"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-09-04-Speech-2-1602
lpv:speaker	lp:Giorgos Katiforis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; PECH (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe was founded on the idea of putting an end to war between the various nations in it. At some point in their history, these nations decided never again to allow themselves to fall into the cesspit of genocide. At the same time, they abolished the diplomacy of threat and pressure and replaced it with the language of reconciliation, compromise and understanding in good faith. Primarily, enlarging Europe can only mean one thing: extending the application of these principles. And nowhere in Europe today is there a more pressing need for the application of these principles to be extended than in Cyprus, whose history of violence, threat, blood-stained borders, military occupation, armed reckonings – all the situations from which Europe has drawn back in horror – is repeating itself for both nations living on the island. The upshot of this for northern, Turkish-occupied Cyprus has been economic ruin and the abolition of political freedom for its people. They live under a military regime in the guise of a pseudo-democracy. In southern Cyprus, which constitutes the internationally recognised Republic of Cyprus, and which functions as a true democracy, even if it is handicapped by the Turkish occupation, the economy is flourishing, prosperity is increasing and all the economic and political criteria set in Copenhagen have been met; however, the people are deprived of the natural, supremely human right to travel around their country, to return to the houses in which they were born, to their small villages, to travel the length and breadth of the country without coming up against barbed wire, road blocks, divided towns or armed soldiers ready to shoot. Under these circumstances, the accession of Cyprus into the European Union, which should not be delayed, will also bring new peace to international relations between Greece, Turkey and Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean in general – the European Union's blessing on all three countries."@en1

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