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"Mr President, naturally, our group too supports this resolution and the demand for a moratorium on using this technique. We now have overwhelming proof that the technique is dangerous. For example, a number of links have been shown to exist between military exercises in which this technique is used and the high incidence of stranded whales.
As mentioned earlier in this debate, there is only one amendment to this excellent resolution. It comes from the other side of this House and was tabled by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats. They wish to attenuate what is one of the absolutely key points by restricting the demand that this technique should not be used so that it only applies to certain geographical areas. That is something that would seriously damage the document. It is also a practical impossibility, since we are concerned here with species that travel over huge areas of sea and that cannot be confined to certain areas. We are also concerned with sound waves that, in themselves, can travel for hundreds of kilometres. We shall vote in favour of the resolution and against the amendment."@en1
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