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"Mr President, I should like to summarise my answers in a few points which are not new but which it is important to put into words.
I should like to warn against trivialising the Iraq problem by comparing Iraq with various other countries. Saddam Hussein is fortunately a very special case with a very distinctive history stretching back a long way. Experience clearly shows that we shall not get anywhere with Saddam Hussein if the use of force is excluded in advance. Iraq must and shall comply with the demands made by the Security Council. There
be unconditional access for the weapons inspectors, including access to Saddam Hussein’s extensive palaces.
The EU will continue to support the efforts of the Security Council and campaign for a unified approach. That is important for the UN’s and the Security Council’s credibility and effectiveness, and it is important in relation both to Iraq and to future multilateral cooperation. The EU therefore continues to support the Security Council’s work along the lines of finding a peaceful solution, insofar as that is possible.
It is encouraging that the American President has recently said that war is not inevitable and that he wants to pursue the option of going down the UN route.
Turning finally to the lifting of the embargo, the oil for food programme
in fact been revised. It is Saddam Hussein who has not so far made use of the opportunities it presents and, in that way, subjected his people to starvation. That is because, in this matter too, he is completely indifferent to the conditions of ordinary people in Iraq. He has other priorities. If we are to encourage him to think about his own people and about peace in the region and in the world, we must take a united stand – in this Parliament too."@en1
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