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"Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think, as many of you have pointed out, that current events in India are partly the result of the wind which Europe and the West have sown in a good part of the world over the last forty years. It is hardly surprising then that we are now reaping a hurricane.
These unbelievable and, as Mrs Lambert has just demonstrated, logical reversals are the same as those which we – or rather you – applied to Palestine: the fact that Mr Sharon visited the esplanade of the mosques or Temple Mount was justification enough for attacks by suicide bombers who are in fact nothing less than suicide murderers. Today, the fact that 60 pilgrims were burnt is justification and excuse enough for the violence unleashed on them by the Muslims.
I think that all this is the result of this inability, this democratic relativism spreading throughout Europe which prevents us from getting to the root of problems, which prevents us from remembering that, with 1 billion inhabitants, India is the largest democracy in the world, which prevents us from realising that, by going to Beijing rather than to Delhi, we are encouraging dictatorship, that by supplying arms to Pakistan for 40, maybe 50 years, we are strengthening the dictatorship, that by doing what we have done to the Taliban regime or by not doing what we should have done, we generated a tragedy in Afghanistan, especially for its women.
This has slowly been building up to the events we are witnessing today and I think that, even if we can reproach the Indian authorities on a number of counts, we need to get beyond these reproaches. I think we also need to look at the exemplary manner in which this huge country has reacted; federal armed forces have been sent to Gujarat, a committee of inquiry has been set up and recourse has been taken to the Supreme Court, all fundamental reactions on the part of India despite its development problems.
I think that if there is a problem, Mr Marset Campos, it is not globalisation but the lack of globalisation. There is still a special unit within the Commission – I do not know if Commissioner Nielson can confirm this – which ensures that Indian textiles do not enter the territory of the European Union. Now, as everyone knows, textiles are one of the sectors around which India can develop and create a stronger economy. Over the last ten years, since globalisation began, India has had a rate of growth of 6 to 7%. That was certainly not the case before globalisation.
So long live globalisation, but long live globalisation in both directions! We cannot expect to keep on exporting our products to India while stopping imports of Indian products into our countries. This is how to achieve development, this is how to strengthen democracy in India and perhaps also closer to home."@en1
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