Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-08-Speech-2-180"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-03-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Lebanon2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050308.21.2-180"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-03-08-Speech-2-1812
lpv:speaker	lp:Hélène Flautre2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Les Verts-Europe-Ecologie (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2004-09-01--2007-01-15)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 chair; DROI (2004-09-01--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"My group will be happy to sign and vote for the resolution drafted this morning, which sets out a number of views that are extremely important for the European Parliament. You have also expounded and supported those views yourselves, Mr President-in-Office of the Council and Commissioner Michel. We welcome and encourage the popular demonstrations now being held in Beirut and those that recently took place in Kiev, and believe there are lessons to be learnt from them. We believe they provide the strongest guarantees for the process of democratisation, as long as the people involved know and feel that they can count on international support. That is a lesson we must remember and from which we must draw conclusions for the future. We, too, like those demonstrators and like the united people of Lebanon, are waiting for clear answers to emerge from the inquiries being held – both the fact-finding mission dispatched by Kofi Annan and the investigations being undertaken by the Lebanese authorities – to identify precisely who was responsible for this appalling act. We have also heard the statements made by the Lebanese and Syrian Presidents, and we look forward to further statements. In fact, given that provision is made for this in the Taif Agreement, why should the security services be excluded from the withdrawal plan? The Syrian security services in Lebanon should also be withdrawn. It has to be said now that pursuing this process of democratisation is the best means we have of ensuring stabilisation, and we have already heard just how crucial that stabilisation is for the region. We expect a great deal from the democratisation process, and the Commission should not, in the report it is preparing on all aspects of the situation in Lebanon and on EU-Lebanon relations, overlook certain key issues that are fundamental for the future of democracy. These include the return of the death penalty; the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared in Lebanon; Lebanon’s adoption of the Rome Statute on which the International Criminal Court is founded; its adoption of the Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees; a solution to the issue of Palestinian refugees; and also certain individual cases of great concern to this House, such as that of the lawyer Mr Mughrabi, who is in prison today as a result of statements he actually made in this Chamber to Members of the European Parliament. There are therefore a lot of hopes riding on this situation, hopes that I am sure this resolution will encourage."@en1

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