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"en.20031217.4.3-133"2
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Once again, this House has responded to the disastrous situation in Cote d’Ivoire by adopting a mediocre resolution which does not distinguish between the prime cause of the situation and factors of secondary importance. The prime cause is a combination of ethnically-based forces, openly racist (whether their racism be intertribal, anti-white, or anti-French), engaged in dismantling the stability and prosperity that they inherited. The armed robberies committed a fortnight ago in Abidjan, by militiamen calling themselves ‘patriots’, the victims being representatives of humanitarian NGOs that are doing remarkable work, especially for the benefit of children, and diplomatic representatives, are made all the more shocking and unacceptable by their being carried out with utter impunity and under the complacent eyes of the forces of order. The double game that the government is playing must be denounced in unequivocal terms: there was nothing spontaneous about these events, which were surreptitiously organised by cronies of President Gbagbo or by the President himself, whose mastery of doubletalk is unsurpassed. These ‘young patriots’ are armed, funded and used by a government which, although lawful, is failing to perform its functions.
In view of the scale of robberies such as these, France and the European Union must, as a matter of urgency, start to talk tough and establish a clear link between aid and respect for rights, or else they will give an impression of indifference or complicity."@en1
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