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"Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, I am sorry, but the policy you both stand for today is no longer just a vile and irresponsible policy: it is a criminal policy, because what you are doing, Mr President-in-Office, is criminalising an entire people.
You have presented them as a terrorist people; the foreign ministers of the five largest countries in the European Union, who met in Paris last week, promised each other to exchange information on the international terrorist training camps in Chechnya. You have never given us – the public – the slightest evidence of them. You talked of Chechen terrorists present in Afghanistan, but no Chechen has ever been found in Afghanistan; you said the same thing about Iraq, but you have never found a single Chechen in Iraq, alive or dead.
This is an identical operation to the one that was carried out in the 1930s, when a whole people was presented as a people of plutocrats; well, now, day after day, you present the Chechen people to European and world public opinion as a terrorist people. You do so because it is expedient for you to do so; it is expedient for you to do so because of the policy you are developing with British Petroleum, which is of great interest to Mr Blair; with Shell, which is of great interest to Mr Oostlander; with
which is of great interest to President Prodi or Mr Berlusconi; with
which is of great interest to President Chirac; and with other companies too, of course. That is what you are doing, in order to promote a policy of self-interest, and certainly not a policy of truth."@en1
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