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"en.20061025.19.3-154"2
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"I oppose this EPP resolution criticising Spanish government efforts to negotiate peace.
If the criteria the EPP seeks to apply were applied initially to the Irish process, the IRA would still be engaged in its murder campaign.
As we know, doubts about the commitment of the IRA continued to exist, 10 years on. But structures have evolved to pressure them and monitor their activities; to ensure that they were disarming and completely committed to politics. It can be said that, had the process not been in place, up to 1000 further deaths could have occurred in that period in Northern Ireland.
The Spanish government is dealing with one of the most difficult tasks - how to bring internal, politically driven violence to an end. The view we are asked to endorse is that of the party in opposition in Spain. This view is contrary to the considered position of the current democratically elected government of the Spanish people. In the UK and Ireland there is cross-party support for the Irish peace process, even though from time to time parties have been critical of details. This is one of the reasons it has been successful to date."@en1
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