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We did not vote against this report for the simple reason that, while expressly condemning the plundering of the Congo by large private companies, including European ones, it does not go as far as to name them.
That did not mean that we voted in favour, however, because in reality the report does not stand up against the exploitation of the Congo, but solely against the exploitation that it describes as illegal. In other words, exploitation that is carried out illegally by companies supported by armed groups, with the help of ungodly, lawless, more or less mafia-type networks, including within the State machinery.
It is this anarchy in the plundering that bothers the rapporteur. He prefers legal plundering. The proof of this is that it is the European states that he is asking to sort it out, to put it in order, the very same states that you are representing here, while you know full well that they are the main supporters, or even organisers, of the general plundering – both legal and illegal – of poor countries. They are the states that establish or support local dictators, who supply arms, who subsidise looting companies.
Faced with so much hypocrisy and cynicism, we prefer to abstain."@en1
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