Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-26-Speech-4-037"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-02-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU policy towards South Caucusus2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040226.2.4-037"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-02-26-Speech-4-0382
lpv:speaker	lp:Marie Anne Isler Béguin2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Les Verts-Europe-Ecologie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Temporary committee on improving safety at sea (2003-11-20--2004-04-21)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I too would like to congratulate Mr Gahrton on his report, which we, the members of the ad hoc delegation for the elections in Georgia, endorse. I would like to say that, so far as the movement of the countries of the South Caucasus towards democracy is concerned, the velvet revolution in Georgia at last opens up what is, we hope, a promising prospect. This new situation will hopefully draw the European Union’s attention, at last, towards this extremely important geostrategic region and erase the offence that was given when it was omitted from the list of our new neighbours. These countries, which are members of the Council of Europe – a Council that they would like to see as an antechamber to the European Union – lay claim to a European culture and must be integrated as a matter of urgency. There can be no doubt that our Union will reach the Caspian Sea in the future. We must therefore do everything we can to help this region, which is highly sensitive to latent regional conflicts, find solutions and ensure that nothing permanent or consensual is negotiated outside democratic frameworks that combine transparency with the participation of all players, citizens and politicians. The European Union must mobilise all its resources and make maximum efforts to give the South Caucasus this democratic infrastructure, as it has done for other regions, because this region remains a silk road for the European Union. The appointment of the EU Special Representative is certainly a step forward, but it is far from enough. The Union must invest, really give itself the necessary resources and give real resources to these fragile states, so that the secessionist tensions that are causing difficulties in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Adzharia, for example, will die down, allowing a lasting peace to be established, based on appropriate statutes. That is the only way these populations of the South Caucasus will ever have a future, and we all know that. The development and transition of these small post-soviet countries must be considered not in the light of their present precariousness but in that of the Union’s means and the potential of local resources. Community funding must also be provided to help close the Armenian nuclear power plant in Medzamor, which is in an earthquake zone. A conversion to sustainable, reliable and economic energy can and must be based on renewable energies. The South Caucasus is turning over a new page in its history. This is all too rare an opportunity, ladies and gentlemen, and the European Union has been absent for too long to miss its appointment this time."@en1

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