Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-12-Speech-3-066"

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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	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030312.1.3-066"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-12-Speech-3-0672
lpv:speaker	lp:Lennart Sacrédeus2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kristdemokraterna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Saddam Hussein is the root cause of the Iraqi crisis. Without the military pressure imposed by the United States and its allies – mainly Great Britain – upon the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, the UN weapons inspectors would not have been allowed into the country. We must not forget that Saddam Hussein threw out the previous weapons inspectors in 1998. That gave him four years in which to develop biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction and long-distance missiles of the Al-Samoud 2 type. The existence of these self-propelled missiles was long denied by the Iraqi regime. Now, they are being destroyed under the supervision of the weapons inspectors. Ever since its defeat in the Gulf War in 1991, Iraq has systematically sabotaged the possibility of the UN weapons inspectors’ investigating the presence of weapons of mass destruction in the country. The then American defence minister, William Cohen, warned Iraq when the UN weapons inspectors were thrown out in November 1998 with the words: the tug-of-war cannot go on for ever. Saddam Hussein is a dictator and tyrant, prepared to embrace any methods whatsoever to fight his enemies, including that of murdering his sons-in-law. He did not hesitate to employ chemical weapons against Iranian soldiers during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s and gassed 5 000 Kurds to death in the city of Halabja in 1988 during the final phase of the war. It is just such weapons of mass destruction that the UN inspectors have not been allowed to search for. For twelve years, Saddam Hussein has attempted to mock the surrounding world by playing a cat and mouse game with the UN weapons inspectors. He must be got rid off, partly in order to create peace and stability in the region but, in the first place, in the interests of freedom and democracy for Iraq’s oppressed population. The EU’s common foreign and security policy has foundered when it has been most needed. Difficult situations put our trust in each other to the test. Obviously, there is now a lack of such trust in each other within the EU. A European Union in which we do not have confidence in each other is an unstable structure."@en1

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