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"en.20030514.1.3-014"2
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"Mr President, the lesson of the Iraq war is not that we should copy the United States and devise our own foreign policy, involving our own superstate army and military-industrial complex. If we had had qualified majority voting on the Iraq issue, neither the British nor the French policy would have obtained majority support. The solution is not to create a superstate, but for us to stick together in Europe in order to strengthen the UN.
If the UN decides that a dictator is to be disarmed, it must also have the power to implement the decision. The UN should have its own rapid reaction force, and the EU’s rapid reaction force should be made available to the UN. The right of veto in the UN Security Council must be limited so that the UN can also take action, even if a small minority is opposed to its doing so. Otherwise, superpowers will act independently and so create justifications for anyone being able to act off their own bat using military assaults and terror tactics. War criminals should be tracked down and brought before the International Criminal Court. Pressure should be exerted on all countries to accept the International Criminal Court and the UN Pact.
The lesson is that we must uphold the international rule of law if we do not wish to end up as victims of the laws of the jungle and of the strongest and ourselves become targets for new generations of terrorists. Only through the rule of law can terrorism and dictatorship be brought effectively to an end."@en1
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