Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-10-12-Speech-3-099"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-10-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Iran2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051012.13.3-099"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-10-12-Speech-3-1002
lpv:speaker	lp:Helmut Kuhne2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; SEDE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, looking back over the speeches made in the past hour, and particularly the last one, I have to say that I have come to understand why some other Members of this House are concerned that Iran might be pushed into a corner and no longer be prepared to engage in dialogue or negotiation. I think it needs to be reiterated that what the troika and the EU bodies offered in the course of the dialogue is a balanced strategy in relation to Iran. It is true to say that there is no built-in guarantee of success, but there is no alternative to it. Any one of the military options mentioned in this debate would be politically disastrous, quite apart from the question of whether or not it would be workable. That is something that has to be made abundantly clear. A number of my fellow-Members who have spoken in the course of the last hour also need to be reminded that we have already had experience of a situation – in Europe, too – in which two powers, armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons, were squaring up to each other. If it had not been for their ability to consider each other’s security interests from each other’s point of view, there would have been neither a Non-Proliferation Treaty nor disarmament, and we might well have already been through a nuclear war. I would have been killed in it, and so, probably, for that matter, would those who have been sounding off in a bellicose fashion. That is something for us to think about. It is indeed the case that we have to be able to include in our calculations the legitimate security interests of other regimes – even of this one. It makes sense to have a strategy that offers them something, but we should not rule out the possibility of using the Security Council as a means of exerting pressure; to do so would be politically foolish."@en1

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