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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe, quite simply, that the text we are preparing to vote on is absolutely odious and despicable. Mr Oostlander is not here for the moment, but our fellow MEPs who, for two years, undermined this Parliament’s demands for Milosevic to be indicted are the same MEPs who, today, are conducting this would–be realistic policy towards the Russian Federation and Mr Putin and who, at every available opportunity, are concealing the reality of the situation in Chechnya, which is one of veritable genocide.
We say we are disappointed by Mr Budanov’s acquittal. I think that we should, at the very least, be extremely shocked. We are sorry that we are not able to visit Chechnya. This visit has now been put off four times and it is two years since the European Parliament delegation was due to visit Chechnya.
We are mistaking, and losing sight of, all our reference points. We forget that, during the years 1940–1945, there were acts of resistance in our countries targeted against the symbols of the occupying power, against Vichy, against Quisling and against those collaborating with the occupying power. Today, it is the attack on the Grozny government headquarters – inconceivable though it would have been to someone such as myself, who eschews violence – that is an act of resistance. Yet we accuse the Chechens, who are aiming at the very heart of collaboration with Moscow, of perpetrating terrorist attacks. These are not terrorist attacks. The attack was aimed at a cell of people working for the FSB and which was therefore a strategic target for the combatants or Chechen resistance. We have completely lost the plot. We are combining everything under the heading of terrorism.
That is extremely serious, as it is also extremely serious to advocate a political solution on the one hand and, on the other, to support a referendum organised by the occupying power; to advocate political negotiations while, in practice, prohibiting Chechen parliamentarians or Ministers from entering our territory to meet politicians from our own countries in the European Parliament, European Commission or European Council, on the pretext that it would be impossible for them to do so. Now, we are very well aware that, under Article 14(3), we have been able to draw up blacklists of Yugoslav or Belarussian politicians and that we are able to draw up a ‘white list’ of Chechen politicians. If we want to talk politics, we must do so with politicians. In this context, we are really beginning to become the accomplices of genocide. It is time that Parliament woke up. Otherwise, we shall be embarking again upon the unspeakable things such as we have seen in connection with Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. I think we have already paid a sufficient price for what was done there."@en1
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