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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, you will no doubt have noticed that French politicians are constantly talking about sovereignty and independence at the moment, but the federalist activists can set their minds at rest, they are not talking about France, they are talking about Iraq.
They are talking about an Iraq where the automatic effects of the initial strategic error are all too evident. The continued military occupation is turning the country into a special theatre of operations for the terrorists, who are even forming another coalition, improbable though it may be, bringing together Islamists returned from exile, all kinds of Jihadists and survivors of the Ba'ath apparatus. You certainly do not need to be a geopolitical genius to see that as long as the foreign military occupation continues, there will be insecurity.
The solution is thus not to seek a broader coalition or UN backing for the coalition. We know what that does. If we want to stop terrorism developing in Iraq, there is no option but to return sovereignty to the Iraqis. We must urgently draw up a timetable for a political transition led by the Iraqis themselves with the assistance, Mr President, of the international community as a whole."@en1
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