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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe has long ignored, almost to the point of forgetting them, the historical and political characteristics of Lebanon, an outlying bastion of Christianity – albeit not alone – in that unsettled region.
United Nations resolution 1559, put forward by France and the USA, demanding the withdrawal of the 14 000 Syrian soldiers from Lebanese territory and the restitution of sovereignty to Lebanon after over 30 years of occupation, has been fundamentally ignored since the autumn of 2004. It took the barbaric assassination of former Prime Minister Harari to re-invigorate the yearning and desire for freedom on the part of the opposition and much of the Lebanese people, and, above all, to awaken the quiescent conscience of the European Union which had left the Lebanese people for years at the mercy of Syrian domination.
The new position of the Saudi regime has left Syria isolated within the Arab League. It would therefore be appropriate for the European Union to adopt a dignified position and resolve to make the signing of the association agreement with Syria conditional on its total withdrawal from Lebanon. Let us not desert the Lebanese – patriots who are proud to be Christians and part of western civilisation. Let us not desert them, as Europe has, in the past, deserted so many nations facing up to barbarism."@en1
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