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"Mr President, it was in Barcelona, the capital of my country, that the process of bringing the peoples of the two sides of the Mediterranean closer together began, eight years ago now. At that time, let us remember, the declaration at the origin of this process gave us great hope. Today, unfortunately, things are very different. The international context has seriously deteriorated and one of the theatres of crisis, one of the most important, is located precisely on one of the coasts of this sea across which we propose building bridges. What in Catalan we call
that is, disenchantment, is today the general dynamic. The living conditions of the peoples of North Africa have not improved in any respect. The Andalusian coasts regularly wash up the bodies of unfortunate North Africans who have fled misery in their notorious rafts. This human tragedy will only come to an end if we deploy all the necessary means to help these people to establish their own social, cultural and economic development. Here, excessive liberalism is quite simply murderous, and I am not sure that the creation of a free trade area will be the solution to these evils. Neither have we seen any real progress towards democracy and the promotion of civil society. Our individualist societies are constantly refining individual rights. That is all very well! But we must not forget collective rights.
Please allow me to mention here the issue of the Western Sahara. I have the feeling that the market here could affect the legitimate rights of these people to self-determination, despite the promises of the United Nations. The legitimate representatives of the Saharan people now accept the new draft solution advocated by Kofi Annan’s special envoy. Morocco, the occupying power opposes it. We must demand that Morocco accept this plan before anything else."@en1
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