Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-08-Speech-2-200"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-03-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Lebanon2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050308.21.2-200"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-03-08-Speech-2-2012
lpv:speaker	lp:Armin Laschet2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-11-14--2005-06-29)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2005-06-29)3 unknown; Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (2004-07-20--2005-06-29)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2005-06-29)3 substitute; BUDG (2004-07-22--2005-06-29)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2005-06-29)3 substitute; SEDE (2004-08-31--2005-06-29)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2005-06-29)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, having spent recent weeks and months holding highly theoretic and very intense debates on European Neighbourhood Policy, we can now see that the spirit of democracy and human rights that we breathed into this policy has now taken possession of our neighbours. First the Georgians, then the Ukrainians, and now, tentatively, the Lebanese, are standing up for the values enshrined in our Neighbourhood Policy. Secondly, among our neighbours around the Mediterranean the Palestinian Authority has been the first to organise free elections – more free than any hitherto held in the Arab world. Many Members of this House were able, in early January, to see with what pride the Palestinian people organised these democratic elections. Now, then, we must set our sights higher. If Jordan supports this peace process and Egypt does likewise, then those who want to disrupt it cannot be partners in our Neighbourhood Policy, and we must not mince our words in saying so. What that means in plain language is that Hezbollah’s offices in Damascus and its activities in Lebanon demand that we in the European Union say loud and clear that it is intolerable that President Abbas’ peace process should continue to be undermined. Today, Hezbollah’s activities are not so much directed against Israel; rather, they are targeted responses to individual actions taken by President Abbas in pursuit of peace. Hezbollah knows that if it can still mastermind one or two terrorist acts, as it has succeeded in doing in Tel Aviv, then the process is again in jeopardy. So, then, it is in the interests of the Palestinian people and of President Abbas that we should make it quite clear that, if Hezbollah does not change tack, then it should be put on the European Union’s list of terrorist organisations, just as it already is on that of the United States. I find it regrettable that this has not found its way into our compromise, although there is an amendment intended to insert it. I think that any new European neighbourhood policy must make that clear, for the sake of the Palestinians and the Arabs in the region beset by conflicts, and that it would also be in Europe’s interests."@en1

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