Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-05-14-Speech-3-136"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-05-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:New Neighbours Initiative and The Wider Europe (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030514.7.3-136"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-05-14-Speech-3-1372
lpv:speaker	lp:Demetrio Volcic2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to draw attention to a region at the very edge of the continent, the Caucasus, which the Minister has already mentioned and which the rapporteur, Mrs Napoletano, has touched on. It is a matter of interest to Europe, for the Caucasus has been part of Europe during many periods of history. Armenia and Georgia are two of the oldest Christian countries. In the Middle Ages, Armenia was considered to be a major European power. At the end of the nineteenth century, nobody would have denied that Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, was a powerful centre among the pioneers of the oil industry, even in European terms. Today, moreover, Azerbaijan is the principal supplier of crude oil to the European Union. After the First World War and before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the national governments of the three countries, despite their diversity, turned to European values. The Conference of Versailles gave a number of European powers the task of assisting the birth of the new democracies. The three Republics participated in the 1972-1975 Pan-European Helsinki Conference as part of the Soviet delegation, and all three are part of the Council of Europe. They are therefore not foreign to Europe. The EU-Southern Caucasus Parliamentary Cooperation Committee has visited these countries on a number of occasions, and the solution for finding a way out of the crisis put forward by the three governments lay, each time, in establishing closer relations with Europe as quickly as possible. It is hoped that even the potentially extremely dangerous crises such as the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh can be resolved in a European context. The United States and Russia are involved in the region for economic reasons. The national governments, with different emphases, of course, therefore have to carry out balancing operations. Nevertheless, they would prefer another protagonist such as the European Union to be more involved. Our Cooperation Committee – for which I have appointed myself spokesman – was impressed by the intrinsic feeling displayed by the three countries – Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan – of historically being part of Europe."@en1

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