Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-14-Speech-3-015"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Giusto Catania2
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lpv:translated text	". Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are taking an historic step, and for that I should most of all like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Fava, and the chairman, Mr Coelho, for the work they have done in this committee. Parliament has very carefully pieced together the last few years of the perverse US strategy in the war against terrorism, which was based on the use of criminal methods and violations of human rights. It was only possible to implement this strategy because of the collusion of European governments and secret services. Condoleezza Rice even said so herself: ‘There has been no violation of national sovereignty.’ Some of the responsibility must also be laid at the door of the European institutions, starting with the remissness of Javier Solana and Gijs De Vries. In my view, however, we must also highlight the embarrassing silence by the President of the Commission, who was perfectly aware of US strategy while he was the Prime Minister of Portugal, to the extent that he organised the famous Azores Summit just five days before the start of the war in Iraq. I also believe that another point needs to be stressed: the Vice-President of the Commission stated in this Chamber that he knew nothing about the kidnapping of Abu Omar, which occurred while he was Foreign Minister in Italy. I believed him then and I believe him now, but a new fact has come up in the meantime which, I think, can help clarify matters: Admiral Battelli, the former head of the SISMI, has admitted that the CIA gave him a list of 13 alleged terrorists to keep under surveillance, including Abu Omar. The head of the SISMI must, by law, report to the government, and at that time Commissioner Frattini was the Italian Government minister responsible for the secret services. To conclude, Mr President, the work that we have done has enabled us to bring a good number of facts to light, although there still remain others to investigate. We are confident that today’s vote will be useful in future, not only to say ‘Never again’, but also in discovering who else may be responsible. A great Roman historian once said, ‘They make a desert and call it peace.’ We think that peace is built by avoiding the desert, in other words by avoiding the death of the rule of law for the sake of the false fight against terrorism."@en1

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