Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-20-Speech-4-023"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:War in Iraq2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030320.2.4-023"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-20-Speech-4-0242
lpv:speaker	lp:Nelly Maes2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; G/EFA (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 unknown; België Spirit (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 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--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, war has begun and we have had the first ten Iraqi deaths in Baghdad. These are facts. From now on weapons will be doing the talking and words will become weapons; they are no longer reliable. Let us look at the facts and the real agenda that is being employed will become clear. What must our agenda be? Our peoples are deeply disillusioned, Mr President-in-Office, because Europe with its powerful institutions has been unable to avoid this war. Our European politicians will have to answer to their people for their impotence. Our European politicians will have to find solutions if they are to provide a real answer for this in the future. Secondly: war kills, and in particular innocent citizens, women and children. We in the European Union must try to relieve the misery and ease the suffering. War destroys and, as Mr van den Berg has said, we shall therefore have to build an international framework for reconstruction. Thirdly: people know where the war begins, but no one knows where it may end. The Kurds in Northern Iraq fear the loss of what little freedom and autonomy they have built up so painstakingly and at the cost of so many lives. They again fear finding themselves between the hammer and the anvil. Will the Kurds be sacrificed to do Ankara a favour? The Turkish Kurds are fearful of being militarily overwhelmed. The Kurds in Northern Iraq fear permanent occupation. The Iranian opposition fears that the mullahs will take the opportunity to destroy them. Will the European Union see the opposition in Iraq being completely sidelined? In the Middle East the frustrations will flare up higher than ever. Only a solution with a Palestinian state, which is clearly coming, can bring these frustrations to an end."@en1

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