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"Mr President, first of all, I would like to thank you for calling me two weeks ago, on the third day of my hunger strike for Chechnya. This is now the 18th day of my hunger strike. I think that the reasons that Mr Poettering has just given do not hold water. I think that Parliament is being held hostage to a few Stalinists, who always take a strong line with those who are weak and are weak in the face of those who are strong. We would like to withdraw the resolution on Chechnya from the agenda because the delegation to Russia is due to visit Moscow in April to meet the Russian members of the delegation. I think that the delegation must go there armed with an extremely clear and strong position on an issue which has been dragging on for two and a half years, during which time 150 000 people have died and 400 000 refugees have been created out of a population of one million. I therefore urge my Socialist friends, and I do have some, not just Mr Sakellariou, and my friends in the Group of the European People’s Party not to indefinitely prolong a tragedy that is very much a tragedy of the present and the past but not necessarily of the future."@en1
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