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"Mr President, the Group of the Party of European Socialists heartily supports Mr Solana and Mr Patten in their attempts to restrict the permanent state of war in the Middle East and to bring the parties concerned back to the negotiating table via the ‘quartet approach’. Mr Joshi Belin, one of the well-known brains behind the Oslo Conventions, assured me only the other day that, despite the fact that the conventions had been seriously undermined by the Sharon regime on the one hand and by Palestinian suicide bombers on the other, what the citizens of both sides need more than ever at this very moment are structural political proposals which offer the prospect of peace. He emphasised once again that European action is essential to this process.
I would like to remind you that this Parliament once adopted a resolution which said that the trade clauses in the association treaty must be applied, if necessary, to ensure that settlement policy is brought to an end, which will otherwise continue to form a structural barrier to peace.
As far as Iraq is concerned, the Group of the Party of European Socialists would like to emphasise once again that neither the US, nor China, nor any other country has, therefore, the unilateral right to begin a large-scale war, wherever in the world. Our approach is by way of the Security Council, a route which, fortunately, we have managed to make binding on a multilateral basis. However, that also means that we may not have any pronouncements that might lead automatically to war. I am really pleased with Mrs Morillon’s statement, which has emphasised that once more on behalf of the PPE-DE. What we need is not war as a reflex response but to bring massive pressure to bear on Saddam Hussein via weapons inspections. The weapons inspections must be effective and, if anything is going on, action can be taken. What we do not need, however, is to go down the road leading to unilateral war. Our first task is to strengthen the coalition against terrorism. This coalition must be our top priority, both from the US side and the European side. Our joint effort must be tied up with this."@en1
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