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"Mr President, I join my colleagues in congratulating Mr Alyssandrakis on his report on the Commission communication to the Council and Parliament on Europe and Space: Turning to a new chapter. This is not the first report that Mr Alyssandrakis has drawn up on the subject of space and, I suspect, not the last.
The Socialist Group will be supporting the report. We believe that space has important civil and industrial applications. Europe cannot afford to be sidelined. Europe cannot afford to allow the US and the other space powers – Russia, China and Japan – to leave us behind. We need to develop further the technological basis of space activities, in particular launchers, to move eventually to European independence.
On the way to European independence we may have to work with those trying to catch up with the US's enormous lead. We therefore welcome the statement in the report that space research is one of the priority themes for the Sixth Framework Programme for research and development. Europe, unless it gets an unequivocal agreement with the United States that it can have access on all occasions to the GSP system, will have to work with others inside and outside the European Union, in industry and government, to develop its own independent system.
We can support the amendment from Mr Chichester to the effect that we can include military applications for peacekeeping purposes. At the same time we support the rapporteur's own amendment, Amendment No 5, which deplores the US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and deplores the development of national missile defence, which we believe will trigger a new arms race in East Asia.
To make our position absolutely clear, we are also willing, if Amendment No 1 is passed, to support the rapporteur's Amendment No 2, to the effect that we believe space should be used to create peace rather than conflict.
We do not see these as contradictory but rather as establishing a limit beyond which we do not wish to go.
I hope that in the vote tomorrow we achieve what we intend, as I have set it out this evening."@en1
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