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"Mr President, I thank Mr Solana and Mr Patten for continuing, in spite of everything, with their already excessively longstanding efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East.
We are clearly facing a frustrating, cruel and, if I may say so, surreal, situation. It is surreal because we are facing a situation in which the Prime Minister of Israel does not support the constructive conclusions of his Foreign Affairs Minister. It is also surreal because Mr Sharon – who regrets not having destroyed Mr Arafat, who he describes as irrelevant, in Beirut in 1982, and who calls the Palestinian Authority a terrorist organisation – is meeting with three notable members of this so-called terrorist organisation. It is surreal because Mr Arafat is under great pressure to combat terrorism but, at the same time, Israel – and we are allowing it – is bombing and thereby destroying the resources available to the Palestinian Authority for combating that terrorism.
This surrealism, however, is welcome if it can bring us closer to peace and development in the region, not only for Palestine. I would like to say however – and I hope I am wrong – that I hope these talks by Mr Sharon with these supposed terrorists from a supposed terrorist organisation, are not simply another attempt to gain time before his meeting with President Bush in Washington tomorrow.
I would like to ask the High Representative, Mr Solana, a question relating to the famous seized vessel, the
: it appears that the people who are trying to ascertain whether the evidence of Iran’s involvement is reliable are working on the basis of stronger evidence than the appearance of arms which are ‘made in Iran’, because we all know that the fact that arms are manufactured in a particular country does not necessarily mean that they are supplied by the government of that country.
Mr President, I say this – and I will end here – because, in this era of trilateral evil, and the demonisation of the situation and the desire to spread suspicions all over the place, it could be a fatal error to encourage suspicions of this type in relation to those invisible enemies which Mr Bush is currently dealing with."@en1
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