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"Mr President, rather than talk about the Stability and Growth Pact I want to comment on another subject which was raised at the informal ECOFIN and with which this debate deals, and that is the Member States' ministers' call for Parliament's agreement on the Money Laundering directive. I would like to echo that call for both colleagues across the European Parliament and governments across Europe to reach an agreement on this directive as soon as possible.
This has been made all the more crucial by the tragic events of 11 September. Terror that day struck at the heart of the global financial system. The terrorists were clearly prepared to use all the mechanisms and tools that the global financial system gave them in planning that attack. Let us turn those tools against them. Many bankers and finance workers died in that attack. Let us enlist the help of those bankers and finance workers in responding to it and preventing a repetition thereof, because this is a concrete step that we can take in the war against terrorism. No-one is going to ask us to go and die on an Afghan hillside, though others will be asked to pay that price. But we too can – and should – make a contribution, because the bankers, brokers, cleaners, IT technicians, investment advisers, lawyers and caterers who spill off our trains into city centres in Frankfurt, Paris, London and Brussels are just the same as those 5000 or 6000 people who turned up for work in New York one day and will never ever come home.
The time has come to stop quibbling about lawyer confidentiality. I call on this Parliament to agree to a directive which will help starve the terrorists of funds. I call on it to agree to the freezing of assets of terrorist organisations, because someone, somewhere, is banking bin Laden's money. We can help starve him of funds, which is as important a task as the military operation which we know will soon follow."@en1
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