Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-04-21-Speech-3-285"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-04-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Pakistan2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040421.11.3-285"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-04-21-Speech-3-2862
lpv:speaker	lp:Catherine Guy-quint2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, democracies do have weapons, but when they give up using them, they lose their souls. The way they have dealt with the status of women in Afghanistan should serve as a lesson. Today, we are dealing with an agreement between the European Union and Pakistan which has no direct financial impact, since the European Community signed a technical cooperation agreement worth EUR 5 million with Pakistan in February. The main thrust of the agreement put to us is therefore political. We are all aware of Pakistan’s geostrategic role, bordering as it does on Afghanistan and India. We are all aware of the contribution it has made to the anti-terrorist coalition initiated by the Americans following the events of 11 September 2001. None of this, however, can justify our support for a country where the present authorities came to power by means of a military coup and where the most recent elections were held in circumstances condemned by our observers and resulted in the installation of a coalition of supporters of President Musharraf and Islamist fundamentalist religious parties not afraid to express their support for Bin Laden. President Musharraf has just adopted an amendment increasing the powers of the armed forces. The leader of the opposition, Benazir Bhutto, is still in exile and her husband has been in prison for five years. We do not underestimate the signs of produced under American pressure in relations with Kashmir, but we feel that nothing practical has yet been achieved. We, as European democrats, cannot continue to bemoan the fate of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma and go along with such an agreement without some soul-searching. For all these reasons, I beg you, on behalf of the French socialist delegation, to refer this agreement back to committee."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"détente"1

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