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"Mr President, the Socialists have always formed part of a movement for worldwide peace. After the Cold War, they spoke out for multilateral agreements which were intended to reduce, both in terms of quantity and quality, weapons systems, particularly nuclear weapons, to a minimum. Europe has opted to use the peace dividend to bridge the poverty gap. Today, we are facing over one hundred regional conflicts in the multipolar world, which mainly claim civilian victims, and often too we are confronted with financed illegal trade in arms and in raw materials, such as oil and diamonds. Our strength was, and still is, conflict prevention. States are crumbling in Africa. Warlords very cunningly join forces with international terrorist networks, and intense cooperation between all Member States of international rule of law is the only answer. Europe must be an independent, critical, yet outspoken, partner of a multilaterally trading United States. In this light, unilateral US policy should be condemned – as Mr Patten and Mr Solana did, rightly so – while joint action should be supported. Of great importance and urgency to the Middle East is a joint project to be set up immediately between the EU and the UN, as was mentioned this morning. We should then like to grant priority to the fight against international terrorist networks and to the situation in Iraq. However, we should like to do this via the UN, and not unilaterally. We would underline that all these initiatives are not in the context of an old fashioned kind of anti-Americanism, but are based on the recognition that all good-willed people need each other. Nobody can regulate the world on their own. The rumours in the Los Angeles Times that the Pentagon is forging plans to use nuclear weapons against seven States, including Russia and China, are of great concern to us in particular. This contravenes international treaties which aim to commit all countries to a reduction in nuclear arms, in the knowledge that we now have the capacity to kill each other many times over. We would ask the Commission and Council to lodge an urgent and forceful protest against the build-up of a fresh and dangerous nuclear arms race. We still believe that the best way to achieve security is to bridge the chasm between rich and poor, by means of which we want to create a world which forms common ground for all people of goodwill, as opposed to international terrorists. We would like to see this initiative of Europe and the United States take shape, also specifically in Monterrey, when the 0.7% is activated."@en1
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