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"Mr President, I would point out that the criteria governing what are, and are not, terrorist organisations are to be found in the Council’s common position of 2 May 2002 which states very precisely that it is experts who assess whether these criteria have been fulfilled. I perfectly understand Mrs Maes’s being able to cite Northern Ireland and other places where compromises have ended up being made with former terrorist organisations. We must hope that this can also happen in the future, for it is often the way in which terrorist organisations can stop being terrorist organisations. In the light, however, of what has happened and of the threat clearly facing our countries, the international community has reached a broad agreement about the need to take action against possible terrorist organisations. Hence, these criteria and this list. I find it hard to see what else could be done, and it does not of course exclude the possibility of former PKK members’ being able to play a role in a future arrangement designed to secure the rights for which Kurdish organisations have fought and of which I have as great an appreciation, I believe, as Mrs Maes. We were fully agreed about these matters during the period in which we sat almost side by side here in Parliament."@en1
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