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"en.20031022.5.3-113"2
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"I am convinced that this is the EU’s big chance to play a positive role in promoting world peace and to give up trying to be a poor man’s United States, with its militarism and philosophy of violence. Instead, the EU should develop an alternative non-violent peace policy. Unfortunately, the Brok report is permeated by traditional over-confidence in military interventions as the only way of bringing about peace. Ought not the EU to learn from the United States’ failures in Afghanistan and Iraq? Ought not the European Parliament to remember its own decisions along different lines, for example the recommendation to the Council, adopted as long ago as 1999, to set up a European civil peace corps? The Council has ignored this recommendation for ten presidencies.
The European Parliament should also strongly support the promising talks now under way between the Beijing Government and the representatives of the Dalai Lama. It can do this by approving Amendment No 10 which repeats our old demand that the EU appoint a special representative for Tibet. Through the people with whom I am in touch as Vice-President of the Delegation for Relations with the People’s Republic of China and as a member of the European Parliament’s all-party Tibet Group, I have contacts in both quarters. I therefore know that both Beijing and the Dalai Lama would welcome a strong initiative from the EU on this issue."@en1
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