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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Iraq2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030312.1.3-033"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-12-Speech-3-0342
lpv:speaker	lp:Gerardo Galeote2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it has been said here that some progress towards disarmament has been made, although the scale of this progress is hard to measure in relative terms, because the obligation to prove that weapons of mass destruction have been destroyed has not been fulfilled. We must remember that the inspectors are not private investigators – they are not budding Sherlock Holmes – they are simply information gatherers. We accept, however, that they have made progress. They have been able to do so simply because of international pressure, the last resort of which is the use of force. Let us recall that the inspectors did not leave the country in 1998 of their own free will, but were expelled because the regime thought that the danger had passed. We must also remember the victims, the thousands of people who perished in the rubble of the twin towers, the tens of thousands who have been eliminated in Iraq because they dissent or simply because they belong to a different minority, the hundreds of thousands who have had to go into exile in order to survive. I assume we all agree that we must do whatever we can to ensure that international terrorist organisations do not gain access to these weapons of mass destruction. I assume, Commissioner, that there are no doubts about this. I also wish to point out that, for the moment, everyone, except for Saddam Hussein, has acted with the utmost respect for international law. If decisions and votes are being postponed in the United Nations Security Council, it is precisely in order to reach an agreement that will enable us to continue to act within international law, laying down concrete conditions for disarmament and precise dates by which this is to be achieved because, as the European Council stated, inspections cannot go on indefinitely. In this context, unfortunately, the unity of action of the European Union’s Member States remains in disarray and I must ask Mr Papandreou and Commissioner Patten – and I know that this is not an easy task – to continue to seek agreement. And this agreement, Mr President, must be founded on the Member States’ will to achieve consensus, on respect for the opinions of others, on not attempting to impose on others policies based on faits accomplis and on abandoning strident attitudes. Simply saying ‘never again’ will not get us anywhere."@en1

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