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"en.20030409.5.3-259"2
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"I do not know whether this terrible war of neocolonial aggression against Iraq will soon come to an end. What I do know for certain is that I will not be one of those celebrating the victory of the imperialist United States in the war to which the whole world was opposed but which it has been unable to prevent.
I believe that, if Europe had succeeded in adopting an unambiguous position, that would have been a barrier to George Bush’s war, but the European Union was divided when it came onto the scene and was therefore impotent and ineffective. It was not enough for Europe not to endorse the United States’ action: Europe as such needed to display explicit opposition. Never has the lack of an unambiguous, united voice been felt so much as in this tragic situation. Never has the need for a European seat on the United Nations Security Council been so keenly felt. Europe can and must carry weight in the world only if it has its own independent foreign and defence policy, with its own independent economic, political forces and military forces too. These forces must by no means be in opposition to the United States but independent from it. Most importantly, Europe must formally confirm its calling and its undertaking to ensure peace, through a simple, clear statement such as that we propose in our amendment: ‘The European Union should reject war as a means of settling international disputes’."@en1
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