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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, first of all, I would like to underline the fact that the General Affairs Council has behaved in a responsible manner by refusing to support Parliament’s recommendation for an outright suspension of the Association Agreement with Israel. And furthermore, you, quite rightly, did not agree, Mr President, to sending observers or a peacekeeping force without a negotiated political agreement. What sort of role could they perform in a situation which, quite clearly, does not involve two regular armies? Any lack of coordination in the European Union’s behaviour can only undermine the supply of confidence that we must have when dealing with each party, if we wish to provide an effective contribution, when the time comes, to finding a lasting peace. The ideological gesticulation and passionate blindness leave open the diplomatic terrain, in other words, that of the genuine search for peace which will benefit the United States alone.
Mr President-in-Office of the Council, what you said this afternoon goes more or less in the right direction, there having been many detours, such as the ambiguous positions adopted by Europe at the Durban conference, our shambolic performance at the meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and Parliament’s biased resolution which sent out the wrong signal at the wrong time. Your statement, Mr President, was balanced. The Council is asking for a withdrawal of Israeli troops from the territories as well as an end to the attacks in Israel. You have strongly condemned the suicide attacks, describing them as inexcusable and indicating that those who carried them out were not martyrs, but terrorists. The European Union must be totally unambiguous, unequivocal and show no complacency on this point. In the coming weeks, the European Union must also help to make the United Nations investigation into the events in Jenin impartial rather than a pretext for manipulations or excesses which will not help the cause of peace. With the prospect of establishing a Palestinian state on the horizon, we must also help to convince the Palestinian Authority to abandon its twin-track approach and to start behaving in a fully responsible way."@en1
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