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"en.20050126.7.3-108"2
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"Mr President, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s most persistent problems. The impact of this continuing conflict has adversely affected neighbouring populations in the Arabian Peninsula, the Persian Gulf, North Africa, and has reached as far as Europe and the USA. The conflict has resulted in injuries and deaths for thousands; poverty and distress for millions.
The persistent attention and the combined strengths of the whole of the United Nations, including the European Union, has brought little or no relief for the population of both opponents. Quarrels of this intensity, that stretch back to the roots of nations’ histories, have only one key that can open the door to peace. Money will not do it, although it can ease the pain of continued poverty. Power is hopeless in moving the minds of man. Outsiders can only suggest: without force they cannot take the executive decisions required. The fundamental change from violence to peaceful solutions; the move from the use of weapons of war to dialogue as a means of reaching acceptable answers; there is only one thing that will tilt the balance, and that is the will of the people. Once that is secured and is allowed by the men of violence to be expressed, democracy is the only formula for complete success.
Today the Palestinians have spoken, their voice has been expressed peacefully through the ballot box. The result is that the Union’s twenty-one year search for the two-state solution is now within reach. If this is good for Palestine, why should we deny democracy to the remainder of the Arabian Peninsula and beyond? I have high hopes for the coming election in Iraq, and elections that may happen later on in other states of the world where violence and non-peaceful solutions are used. This spread of democracy is the European Union’s task now. It is one in which we can join hands with our American allies. Where Palestine leads, Iraq can follow and perhaps other states will take the same solution."@en1
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