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"Mr President, Commissioner, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, in my view, the text on which we are going to vote tomorrow on the relations between the European Union and Russia is frankly repugnant. Mr Oostlander talked to us about his concerns regarding democratisation, or the lack of democratisation, in Russia, but he did not say a word in his four-minute speech about Chechnya. Mr Paasilinna, who together with Mr Oostlander is one of the main initiators of this resolution, did not mention it either. The resolution even goes so far as to praise the Russian military forces for their peacekeeping efforts. Russian peacekeeping forces, in Chechnya or elsewhere – like a few years ago in Afghanistan – let everyone judge for themselves.
For once, at least the Council spoke a little about Chechnya, but I feel that the Council is deluding itself and I would even go so far as to say that it is lying to itself. However, by the same token, it is lying to us and telling us stories because the issue is not that which the President-in-Office of the Council outlined. The political solution proposed by Mr Putin is not a political solution. It encourages two forms of terrorism: the terror imposed on a daily basis by the Russian forces in Chechnya and the actions of gangs of terrorists secretly assisted by these same Russian military forces, who now occupy the entire territory and no longer give the political solution advocated by the Council a chance.
We have tried everything, Europe did everything it could to isolate Mr Maskadov, who was nonetheless elected by the people of Chechnya during elections legitimised by the OSCE. The European Union has done everything it can to ensure that the ministers of Mr Maskadov’s Government cannot move throughout Europe and can no longer meet the political authorities in the various EU countries. It has done everything in its power to destroy any possibility of real negotiations between the Chechens and the Russian authorities.
Today, we have a kind of Quisling controlling Grozny and the surrounding area, who obeys Moscow. From time to time, he rebels and draws up a report, which you mentioned, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, in which he speaks about the daily policy of terror implemented by the Russian authorities in Chechnya.
That is the reality today. Without President Maskadov, peace will not be possible and no political solution will be possible in Chechnya. Without a clear message to President Putin to launch negotiations, there will be no solution in Chechnya. Moreover, Mr Putin stated about 10 months ago in the
that the problem facing Russia was not that of the final status of Chechnya but one of security. Mr Maskadov’s Foreign Minister has proposed provisional administration of Chechnya by the United Nations, precisely to reassure the Russian authorities and to establish, within five or ten years, a Chechnyan administration that would provide a guarantee against the threats to Russian security.
You do not talk about this; you do not want to see it happen; you do not want to see the Chechnyan Foreign Minister, who can no longer move throughout Europe and to whom you refuse a visa, just as you refuse visas to the other members of Mr Maskadov’s government. That is the opposite of what should be done and yet it is what you continue to do. That is what makes it impossible to break the circle of terror, which, every day, as Mr Belder and Mrs Schroedter said, pushes young Chechens to despair, young people who have seen their parents, brothers and cousins killed in Grozny or in other towns in Chechnya, kidnapped and raped by the Russian forces. By acting this way, you are pushing them into the arms of the extremists who finance some of the madmen operating elsewhere in the world.
It is essential to change this attitude as soon as possible. If not, instead of champagne, you will be agreeing to drink blood at the next St Petersburg summit."@en1
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