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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Iraqi people’s adoption of an interim Constitution is, as far as we are concerned, a major step forward. The extensive participation of the people in the electoral process constitutes a reason for feeling optimistic about Iraq’s burgeoning democracy. The development of the country clearly opens the door to a future partnership between Iraq and the European Union, particularly in the context of the EU’s Neighbourhood Policy and of peace in the Mashreq region and, in this regard, I thank Mrs Ferrero-Waldner for the commitments made on behalf of the Commission.
There are a great number of issues at stake for this partnership: the democratic stabilisation of the country; the creation of a real, and no longer formal, rule of law; respect for fundamental freedoms and minority rights, and yet also the transition from a wartime to a peacetime economy and from a state-controlled to a market economy; the allocation of oil resources to diversification promoting agriculture, industry and services; and, finally, the reconstruction of the education and health care systems destroyed by so many years of authoritarian rule, embargoes and war.
There are a number of prerequisites for this partnership, however. Iraq’s as yet uncertain development calls for us to exercise the utmost vigilance. We cannot just dismiss the use of white phosphorous bombs by the Americans in Falluja – if the information turns out to be true. An investigation must be carried out. Replacing the foreign forces with a peacekeeping presence under the aegis of the United Nations features among our objectives.
The December elections must enable the Iraqi people to elect a government and a parliament that are representative of the human and political balances in the country. In this regard, the federal institutional framework seems particularly suitable. Curbing types of fundamentalism, combating the theory of the so-called clash of civilisations and building this entire Mashreq region upon the foundations of shared values are the goals that the European Union must be given."@en1
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