Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-09-Speech-2-207"
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"Mr President, Europe does not believe in war, it only believes in peace, and therefore in a political solution. This means that we all shoulder our responsibilities.
One of the Arab countries, Saudi Arabia – an influential country – has recently taken a major step by proposing a peace plan for the whole region.
Let us, therefore, shoulder our responsibilities, and I hope that tomorrow in Madrid, Mr Solana, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, you will be able to convince President Bush’s envoy that the time has come to become involved in this conflict to find the solution, and this can only be a political solution.
This also assumes that, in the future, when the ceasefire is in place and the withdrawal from the occupied territories has been accomplished, the Security Council will be able to send an intervention and observation force to the area. Its task will never be to enforce peace but will be to remind each party of its responsibilities within the Security Council.
The majority of French Socialists is in favour of suspending the Association Agreement, but we must ensure that we find a solution where we are still able to address all parties and that we do not put in place mechanisms which might be overturned, which would strengthen support for those whom we wish to punish.
Lastly, nothing that happens in the Middle East can ever justify acts of anti-Semitism being committed in any of our countries, whether ad hoc or organised, acts which take us back to the darkest hours of the previous century and revive our memories.
I hope that everyone here will be able to make every effort to make others aware and that, in all our countries, we maintain a spirit of tolerance, mutual respect and secularity."@en1
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