Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-15-Speech-3-123"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-02-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Belarus in the run-up to the presidential elections on 19 March (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060215.12.3-123"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-02-15-Speech-3-1242
lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Marie Coûteaux2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Mouvement pour la France - Rassemblement pour l’Indépendance et la Souveraineté de la France (2005-10-05--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DEVE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, as usual, I only have a few words in which to express my disagreement with what the Council and the Commission have just said. I find it rather facile, as in other cases, to reproach a sovereign country for not conforming in every way to the models we have prescribed in order to recognise one government or another, in reality according to whether or not it suits us for any other reason. After the fall of the Soviet Empire, Belarus was left to the mercy of certain gangs of predators which were no more legitimate because they served the interest of some multinational or other, to the point that we saw ministers selling off public assets piecemeal for their own benefit, and often to European companies. That was known as liberalisation. We all saw Belarus being exploited by certain Western powers, which are only too pleased to turn it, and with it the resources that it offers, against its great sister nation, Russia. Ladies and gentlemen, let us not be fooled by rather facile propaganda. If we are being asked today to condemn the Minsk authorities, it is not for the good of the Belarusian people, but simply so that we can blindly act as an accomplice in a United States strategy aimed at restricting Russian power as much as possible, by depriving it of its most natural historical and geographical alliances. That is playing God, as we saw a year ago in Ukraine, and it does not benefit Europe, the real Europe, which must include Russia and all of its allies within its sphere, and it will do so sooner or later."@en1

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