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Mr President, I should like to thank the honourable Members of the European Parliament for the debate we have had, for the support they have expressed for many of the Presidency’s thoughts and proposals and for the Commission’s thoughts and proposals, even though they do not come within my jurisdiction.
We have set out a whole series of useful proposals. I must say that I agree that the role of the administration needs to extend beyond Kabul city limits if there is to be greater stability and normalisation in the country as a whole, that the mission of the ISAF needs to be extended so that it can work along the same political lines and, thirdly, that human rights must be respected, be they women’s rights, prisoners’ rights or adversaries’ rights. We have a history of respect for human rights for institutional, historic and cultural reasons. It is a tradition in Europe and we must respect it wherever necessary.
The debate as a whole has shown that what we want to create in Afghanistan, as everyone knows, is a country in which the values of democracy and freedom take hold and the potential for economic development and confidence is realised. History has taught us that this is a long, hard process in any country and I know of no other country in which such huge changes have come about in such a short space of time. We, for our part, need to show political determination, we need to provide economic, political and humanitarian assistance, but we also need to be realistic about what we can do, how far we can go, what the prevailing circumstances are, what difficulties the people there face, what balances need to be respected, what values hold sway and how we can provide help in the right direction.
We are still a long way from being able to say that the game in Afghanistan has been won. We are only a short way down the line and we still have a great deal to do over a very long period of time. Developments in Afghanistan will be influenced by numerous factors, both internal and external. We need to look at individual concerns, what is happening with the constitution, what is happening on the humanitarian and numerous other fronts, and we need to take an overall view and apply an overall strategy as to how we can influence developments. Success cannot be measured by one criterion alone or by a number of individual criteria which we might mention, and several have been mentioned, be they institutional or individual rights or economic progress. Success will be measured by simultaneous progress on a number of political, institutional, social and economic fronts in Afghanistan."@en1
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