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"Mr President, the common foreign and security policy covers a great many primary and secondary aspects and it is of course impossible to be exhaustive in this short space of time. Two points nonetheless.
First and foremost I would like to point to a gap in the list of priorities and that is the support for Europeans or people of European origin in other parts of the world. Above all I am talking about southern Africa, not just South Africa itself but also Zimbabwe. It is high time that the European Union started to take strong measures to bring an end to the attacks on farms and the systematic expropriations of farms run by Europeans. Such action would for that matter be in the interest of the whole population there. I refer for example to Zimbabwe, the country that used to be known as the granary of Africa and that is now ravaged by starvation, in part and in the main because of the mismanagement of dictator Mugabe.
Another problem that deserves more attention is nuclear disarmament. The report places the emphasis on compliance with the non-proliferation treaty, but overlooks the colossal security risk posed by poorly guarded or semi-abandoned nuclear facilities in former Soviet states and a number of other countries, and the misuse that can be made of them by terror organisations such as Al-Qaida. We must as the European Union sit down urgently with the countries and international organisations concerned and ensure that the necessary resources are released to defuse this ticking time bomb."@en1
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