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"Mr President, we will never forget the attacks against the United States, which we utterly condemn. We share the grief of the civilian victims and their families and we share the values of our great ally – democracy and individual freedom. Terrorism creates a state of mind. It provokes outrage and reaction, so we must be united, we must be determined and we must be vigilant.
However, in addition to our united political reaction, we must adjust the European Union's diplomatic standpoint. In the context of the current budget process, we must reassess the EU's vast aid programme, in particular, if states were involved in that terrorism in any way.
The EU is perceived as pro-Arab. I regret this. We should be pro-democracy. War has been declared and we should unequivocally stand by our American allies. My party and group are committed to giving our full support, in particular to the British Government, its partners in the European Union and to our NATO allies. The scale and nature of the outrage we witnessed in the United States last week gives us a warning of what else the new millennium might bring, so we must look pragmatically at what we need to do together.
We should learn from each other as much as possible about how to deal with the security of our people and how best to reduce the tensions which lead to political violence and terrorism. As far as possible, our electors should be allowed to get on with their lives, but we as politicians cannot rest while terrorism lives."@en1
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