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What we should retain from this sitting is that we have debated at length a report on European security, whose content is for the most part completely out of date, and that we have refrained, by a great majority, from debating the war in Iraq at a time when its outcome is at stake and its consequences concern our security first and foremost.
We should also remember Parliament’s silence on the tripartite summit between France, Germany and Russia, which begins tomorrow in St Petersburg with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Is this silence because the summit concerns an intergovernmental initiative and is therefore ideologically unsound? If Parliament was genuinely concerned, however, as it claims, about seeing Europe exert its own substantial diplomatic influence in the period following the war, it would have to attach greater importance to the St Petersburg Summit than to the next European Council.
Lastly, we should remember doubling financial aid to Turkey, probably in order to thank Ankara for its refusal to end the occupation of Cyprus by its troops. Aid should not be linked to accession, as Parliament has done, but to a constructive attitude on Turkey’s part making it possible to achieve a reunited Cyprus before the entry of Nicosia into the Union. If we had done this, we would have made a practical contribution towards European security."@en1
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