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"en.20011212.6.3-208"2
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"Mr President, we are probably addressing the question or the comment to the wrong person, but here you represent the Council as a whole. I have a feeling that the Western Sahara issue, to which I have devoted over half my political life so far, is actually a tragedy. How the conflict should be resolved is clear – after all, the UN peace plan was there at the beginning of the 1990s – and it is equally clear which European countries have very strong geopolitical interests in its not being adhered to.
I must of course take note of the response that what is done in the UN must be adhered to. I believe, though, that the European Union and the Member States must, for the sake of a common foreign and security policy, choose a coordinated way of proceeding, one that is in accordance with the UN peace plan. Following the visit of King Mohammed VI, events have followed in rapid succession. There has also been a visit to the Western Sahara by the French President, Jacques Chirac, who, in defiance of all international legal positions, said that the Western Sahara was made up of the southern provinces of Morocco – a point we are discussing in the Council of the European Union."@en1
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