Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-15-Speech-3-180"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EC-Lebanon2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030115.10.3-180"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-15-Speech-3-1812
lpv:speaker	lp:Jean-Thomas Nordmann2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ELDR (2002-12-16--2003-03-05)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-12-18--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Union pour la démocratie française - Parti radical (2002-07-03--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2003-01-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2003-01-13--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I also have first-hand experience of Lebanon and to continue using the images used by the previous speaker, I would say that it is possible to be in love with Lebanon but that love, in this case, does not mean turning a blind eye. I feel that the European Union has negotiated with an official Lebanon, a somewhat theoretical Lebanon, not to say mythical, that the situation in Lebanon today is sadly still a long way from the idyllic visions that some wish to use in order to justify the agreement, and that, fortunately, our debate re-establishes the harsh reality. Lebanon is a State whose independence still poses problems today. More than ten years after the Taïf agreements, the Israelis have withdrawn but the Syrians remain and are still very present in a country over which they maintain a protectorate and whose independence they have never really recognised. The warlords remain, there is still no Rule of Law or free media, as we saw again just recently at the last summit of French-speaking countries, drug-trafficking and corruption remain, and terrorist bases, in particular, as has been pointed out, Hezbollah bases, still remain. Mr President, we are therefore in a paradoxical situation, because an assessment of the Lebanese situation gives rise to a whole string of reasons that would be cause to suspend the agreement if it existed and was still operational. That is the paradox we face today. Is there a need for an association? An association, Mr President, can only exist between two parties. Does the European Union currently have a fully credible partner? Unfortunately that is still in doubt."@en1

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