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"Mr President, I want to raise two issues in my one minute. Firstly, the proposal to launch a transatlantic marketplace is the brainchild of the Transatlantic Policy Network, consisting of multinational corporations, neo-liberal think tanks and politicians in this House. It has never been the subject of a proper public debate, even though it will be the biggest deregulation project ever undertaken. We do not believe it is in the interests of ordinary people.
Secondly, I want to urge the Council to raise with US colleagues the issue of Iraq and in particular the recent massacre at Fallujah – and I do not use the word massacre lightly. Images of the US military's handling of the uprising in Fallujah have shocked the world. More than 600 Iraqis have been killed or injured in the last two weeks by US bombing and ground operations, and yet EU Member States have failed to condemn the US military actions. Maybe they accept the reassurance of the commander of US Marines that his men are 'trained to be precise in their firepower'. However, over 350 of the dead in Fallujah were women and children. In the light of US military use of unjustified and disproportionate force, and given the high death toll in this siege, I call on the Council to raise its human rights concerns in this transatlantic dialogue and to call for an independent commission of inquiry into the US military actions in the Fallujah region."@en1
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