Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-12-Speech-3-146"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-12-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Middle East2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011212.4.3-146"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-12-12-Speech-3-1472
lpv:speaker	lp:Jacques F. Poos2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Parti ouvrier socialiste luxembourgeois (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 quaestor; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Quaestors (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 quaestor; European Parliament (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (2000-03-08--2002-01-16)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, eight years after the Oslo accords and 15 months after the start of the second Intifada, the situation in the Middle East in December 2001 is disastrous. Mr Sharon has not been able to keep his electoral promises regarding improving the security of Israel and its population. The leader of the Palestinian Authority is weakened, surrounded and besieged in territories which are autonomous in name only. The Palestinian civilians are more subjugated than ever before and do not have any future prospects. The international community wants peace. It is now working towards an intermediary objective, but this is unattainable. The objective is the plan named after the American Senator Mr Mitchell. The Mitchell Plan is well intentioned in that its primary aim is to put an end to the killing. It is however misconceived. Every mini-agreement is reached on such a restricted basis that they remain at the mercy of the next suicide attack and then have to be re-established all over again. Even supposing that the preconditions required by Mr Sharon are satisfied, and even supposing that the Mitchell Plan is implemented in full and with great difficulty, this will in no way address the fundamental causes of the conflict. Nor will the deep-seated personal hatred of Mr Sharon for Mr Arafat disappear as if by magic. The fundamental causes of the conflict are to be found in the continuing occupation of the Palestinian and Syrian territories seized by Israel during the 1967 war. According to the winner of the Sakharov prize, Mrs Peled-Elhanan, who spoke to us this morning, this occupation is cruel. Only when the army of occupation has withdrawn from all of these territories, including East Jerusalem, as the United Nations’ resolutions demand, will the conditions for a stable and lasting peace be created. This is why the European Union should speak out in support of an immediate and definitive agreement to establish secure and internationally recognised borders. These would be protected if necessary by an international force for an interim period. With the support of the European Union, all the countries of the region would then be able to embark upon the reconciliation and reconstruction process from new foundations. Israel should withdraw to its 1967 international borders, and the Arab world must give its formal and binding recognition of these. This is the overall objective that the Council should pursue determinedly on the world stage. If we act in this way on the issue of Middle East, we will fulfil the role everyone wants us to take on. What is required today is not an equidistant role but a fair role."@en1
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