Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-14-Speech-2-230"
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". – I should like to make two points.
Firstly, all of us condemn terrorist acts. All of us condemn suicide bombing. Many of us doubt whether the right way of rooting out the infrastructure of terrorism in the Palestinian territories is by destroying the infrastructure of public facilities and the Palestinian authority. I am not sure what damaging and almost destroying the Central Bureau of Statistics in the Palestinian territories has to do with rooting out terrorism. I am not sure what destroying the Land Registry has to do with rooting out terrorism. Very often it looks to bystanders as though every manifestation of institutional life in the Palestinian territories has been targeted, whether public or private, whether the authorities' administrative structure or civil society. I happen to believe that is a profoundly mistaken policy, particularly if one is trying to hold out to Palestinians a political prospect and a path to peace and future security.
As to the question of our assistance in Palestine, we continue to provide to the Palestinian authority – and this is a policy that began because of the block put on the payment of tax revenues by Israel to the Palestinian authority – very carefully controlled and monitored assistance, for instance to pay for doctors and nurses and for the ordinary infrastructure. We have been one of the main supporters of the Palestinian authority and have been the subject of some very unfair criticism for that. However, keeping a Palestinian authority in being is an important part of holding out the prospect of a peace process. We continue to provide substantial quantities of other sorts of assistance, such as humanitarian assistance. Before Christmas we announced that we would provide EUR 30 million for those municipalities in Palestine that had been hardest hit by hostilities. We are providing a loan fund of EUR 10 million for small- and medium-sized enterprises. I can send details of all the assistance that we have given in the Palestinian authorities. I am only sorry that it has not been more successful in creating the economic and social foundations that are so relevant to a peaceful political future."@en1
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