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Mr President, I would like to thank all the Members who have spoken and, in particular, Commissioner Patten and many of the speakers for their undertaking to further the success of the Donors’ Conference to be held in Madrid, and I would like to thank the House for the many comments made, which I will not repeat.
I would like to say, however, that the instability and the attacks on the US and UK forces are a problem for everyone – they have been right from the start, right from the first attack – and not just for the coalition forces. It needs to be made quite clear – I do not think anyone has any doubts on this matter – that terrorism is never justified, that retaliatory action carried out using bombs, using suicide bombers, is never legitimate: this is one of our fundamental principles. Clearly, however, in addition to tanks and weapons, now we have to take to Iraq a roadmap for democracy, a roadmap for political and institutional reconstruction and for a new Iraqi Government. That is why the Presidency has said and continues to say that we need a UN mandate; that is why, because Europe currently feels the need to reinvigorate UN action but, at the same time, wants the United Nations to be more effective, more capable of taking decisions and shouldering responsibilities than it was during the eventful weeks preceding military action.
I believe we must look to the future, to when Europe will be able, for instance – as someone has said – to express in the Security Council opinions which have been discussed beforehand and agreed upon by the 25 European countries. I feel this is a necessary experiment. We must make every effort to this end, so that we may come closer to realising the dream – for that is what it is – of having a European seat in the United Nations. That is why the Presidency will report, next Friday at the General Affairs Council, on the positions – which I hope will converge and coincide – of the UN, Russia and the United States on a new resolution, giving the UN a central role, and then attempt to set out alongside these evaluations and opinions the unified position of Europe.
It would, I believe, be an excellent, exemplary way of
boosting Euro-Atlantic cohesion, to which the Presidency is committed, doing so precisely on the matter of Iraq, an issue which has damaged the relationship between us Europeans and our US friends in recent months. The Presidency therefore confirms that it will make every endeavour to
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