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"en.20051024.13.1-030"2
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"Mr President, the issue of the European border with Russia is not peripheral or marginal; on the contrary, it is absolutely fundamental. Estonia is a full Member of the EU. This concerns the Union’s external border.
What is at stake today, an alternative to our values, i.e. the Commission’s appeasement of Russia or the reliability of the EU for the new members. The danger that the EU could lose reliability was noticed at the London Summit, where the Russian-Estonian border issue, which is the subject of the commitments between Russia and the EU, became marginalised. The two governments were suggested to sort the problem out and the Commission would stand aside and wash its hands of the matter. Among these two was one big government and one small. The big and angry one dared to ask the Commission to take Russia’s side and bring smaller new Member States to order. They became disobedient to Russia, and that was bad. This was precisely the position expressed recently by the Russian Ambassador, Mr Chizhov, in Brussels.
Our Parliament, as a more independent and conscious body, should debate this matter and issue a resolution."@en1
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