Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-12-Speech-3-184"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-02-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Iraq2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030212.5.3-184"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-02-12-Speech-3-1852
lpv:speaker	lp:Hanja Maij-weggen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2003-09-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-08-29--2003-09-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2003-09-30)3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2003-09-30)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2003-09-30)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2003-09-30)3 unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (1999-07-20--2003-09-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, with war looming, the European Union is displaying discord that is viewed with disbelief and bewilderment by our citizens. The most important question, of course, is: is war inevitable? Anyone who has observed Saddam Hussein at all over the past 15 years cannot escape the conclusion that what we are dealing with here is one of the most dangerous heads of government in the world. This is a man who, out of self-interest, has attacked a peaceful neighbouring country. This is a man who has used poison gas on rebel Kurdish villages, thereby killing thousands of men, women and children. This is a man who permanently terrorises the south of his country, with its Shi-ite population. This is a man who, in spite of the poverty of his country, Commissioner Nielson, has built up an enormous and very costly arsenal of not only conventional, but also chemical and biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons, with which to permanently threaten and blackmail other countries, and to endanger world peace. Anyone who reads today’s article in by Khidhir Hamza, a former head of Iraq’s nuclear programme, need have no doubt about the presence of those weapons and about what Saddam Hussein intends to do with them. This is a man who has amassed enormous wealth at the expense of his people and is also still proud of having personally carried out executions. To my mind, it is naive to go looking for weapons in that large country with 200 inspectors. Do you know that, in recent years, 6 000 inspectors have gone looking for weapons? Is it not very easy, given that the country has so many inaccessible mountainous regions, to hide weapons of this kind in caves? I am in favour of a second Security Council resolution provided that the solution to the problem is not delayed further. But the position of France, Germany and Belgium in this as dissidents in the European camp is terribly worrying. Why have you not made the greatest efforts to agree on a single line? Sit yourselves down together, as the Ministers for Agriculture did earlier, until the white smoke comes out. I think that it is an excellent idea to actually get together on Monday; I sincerely hope that the European leaders can then iron out their differences and that they do not embarrass the European population and us again. I do not have so much need to find fault with the United States: we should be clear about who the real instigator is of all the trouble, that is, Saddam Hussein, and not George Bush."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"The"1 "Wall Street Journal"1

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