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"Thank you Mr President.
Urte berri on danori eta zuri zorionak Lehendakari Jauna.
Mr President, Happy New Year to everybody and congratulations to our President. Yesterday Mr Poettering mentioned the relevance of you being Irish as the best evidence of political success for the small countries of our continent. As a Basque, I was very pleased to hear that, because the Republic of Ireland, which has only existed for a century, can give a European stateless nation like ours a very encouraging example. For that reason too, I wish you good luck and all the best.
During the coming months, however, the Government of the Kingdom of Spain will be at your side watching how faithfully you are following the path marked out by your predecessor. Let me recall that in 1999 the refusal of the Spanish Government to move from its nationalist blindness threw away the greatest chance for peace in more than a generation. Prime Minister, can you give this Parliament a glimmer of hope by saying that you will be committed to working towards a political settlement of the ongoing conflict in the Basque country? Time is running out. At the end of this week you will have 10% less time left in the term of your European Union presidency. You must hurry up. We are ready for an immediate breakthrough in the present deadlock. I will finish by recalling the words of Mr Watson. He said that it is necessary to recognise that "political problems often require political solutions"."@en1
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