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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-04-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in the Middle Esat2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040421.2.3-055"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-04-21-Speech-3-0562
lpv:speaker	lp:Emilio Menéndez del Valle2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (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 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, paragraph 51 of this Parliament’s recent Resolution on the results of the European Council states that ‘without strong pressure on the two sides, the Road Map will remain ineffective’. Naturally, I believe that the Road Map is still ineffective and I wonder what has happened to the pressure on Israel. Parliament also calls on ‘the United States Administration to assume their responsibility vis-à-vis the present crisis’. In my opinion, that government has not only failed to assume its responsibilities, but has given in to the Israeli Government. Powell’s comments of last Thursday are, in my view, a mixture of absurd wishful thinking and cynicism, when he said that the meeting between Bush and Sharon has produced positive results for the Palestinians and their aspirations for a State. This is demonstrated by the fact that the minister without portfolio of the Israeli Government, Gideon Ezra, stated on Friday that Powell’s comments, intended to soften Bush’s pro-Israeli tone, do not reflect the opinion of Bush himself. Parliament’s Resolution also calls for both parties ‘to make a serious effort to resume genuine negotiations’. In my opinion, the Palestinian National Authority has been waiting for months for the resumption of those negotiations, but it is clear that Israel does not want to negotiate with the Palestinian National Authority and is prepared at this point, with the full support of Bush, to withdraw unilaterally from Gaza outside the framework of the Road Map. It has become sufficiently clear, in my view, that it is not a question of Gaza first and West Bank second, but of Gaza only. Following so many events we should remember another two paragraphs of our Resolution; paragraph 48, included following the killing of Sheikh Yassin, which: ‘calls on the Council and the Commission to consider acting in full compliance with Article 2 of the Association Agreement with Israel should the policy of extrajudicial killings continue’. Well, the extra-judicial executions are continuing, most recently of Abdel Aziz Rantisi. I therefore believe that Parliament must reiterate its request to the Council and the Commission. Also, finally, in paragraph 49 Parliament ‘asks the Council to invite the Member States in the UN Security Council immediately to table a proposal for an international peacekeeping force at the 1967 borders, with the mandate to protect both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples from terrorist attacks, military incursions and interventions’. We must also reiterate that demand."@en1

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