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"Mr Aznar, twenty years ago, one European market with one currency, the euro, was a dream. Today, it is a reality. The Group of the Party of European Socialists would like to see the same ambitions inform European security and defence policy, and all the events of 11 September have only strengthened this wish. It is a prerequisite for peace and progress. This is why we support the Spanish Presidency if it wishes to inject this ESDP with more dynamism, greater capacity and, in general, more resources to become more effective. In this respect, it is essential for the message of multilateralism to be broadcast. The US’s withdrawal from the ABM Treaty is in conflict with this. We do not want to relapse into a fresh arms race. We would ask the Spanish Presidency to send this European message to our ally, the United States, in particular. We can drive this message home and make this appeal to the US with all the more force now that we, as Europe – in the coalition – are prepared vigorously to continue the fight against terrorism, both inside and outside Europe.
I have a second, serious question for the Spanish Presidency. Are you also prepared to fight for a worldwide coalition against poverty? After all, poverty largely forms the breeding ground for fundamentalist hatred, of whatever origin. It must be a coalition against poverty in Asia, in Africa and also in the Euro-Mediterranean process, for security on our planet is not there for the chosen few, but is only stable if it is shared by all, under an international rule of law.
Does the Spanish Presidency not agree that it would be better to make financial investments in this instead of putting all our money unilaterally into new, Star Wars-like investments?
Against this backdrop, would you make every effort to help Messrs Solana and Patten to have a fully operational capacity for the Petersberg tasks by 2003?
In the Middle East, we hear Iran’s ex-Prime Minister, Mr Rafsanjani, threaten to destroy Israel by means of an atom bomb. His saying that is wholly unacceptable. But the policy of Mr Sharon, who has isolated Mr Arafat and has turned innocent Palestinian citizens into victims, has not contributed to security in Israel and Palestine in any way. Is the Spanish Presidency, in tandem with the United States and Russia, prepared to launch a new peace initiative in the Middle East as a whole? We would be very grateful if it did."@en1
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