Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-11-15-Speech-4-244"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-11-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Somalia (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071115.25.4-244"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-11-15-Speech-4-2452
lpv:speaker	lp:John Bowis2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, for many generations people from Somaliland and Somalia have been coming to my constituency of London. They have a long tradition of working in the British Merchant Navy and sending monies back home. During my time in the British Parliament, I was Co-Chairman of the British-Somali All-Party Group. Sometimes we took up problems and sometimes we took up personal issues and so forth. There were many of these. The Somalis were wonderful people but were not served by particularly wonderful leaders. Now things have gone from bad to worse. We now have a failed state. We have a situation where the country has some of the worst health statistics in the world. Its people face violence every day and continually rising child and maternal mortality rates. They are being caught in the crossfire between Ethiopian and government troops and the court militias. That is why this issue is on the agenda today. We can see how awful it is to live in Somalia today. We can see the glaring necessity to get humanitarian aid there, and yet we cannot get it there. We can see the need for peacekeeping forces, and we welcome what the African Union has promised, but we do not welcome what it is actually providing. It is nothing like what has been promised. At the moment all we have there is Ugandan troops. Until the promised figure of 8 000 troops is reached, the Ethiopians will not leave. We have to see how we can get people talking – talking across borders, talking across some of our traditional prejudices – because, if people do not talk, there will be no stability, and if there is no stability then there is no future for that country. If there is no future, then more people will die. We will not be responsible, but we will have played no part in preventing that happening."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DEVE (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3 member; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"John Bowis (PPE-DE ),"1 "author"1

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