Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-02-20-Speech-3-279"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-02-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Kosovo (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080220.14.3-279"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-02-20-Speech-3-2802
lpv:speaker	lp:Athanasios Pafilis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with India (2007-04-12--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the appeals by the Council and the Commission to international law, the principles of the UN and the Helsinki Final Act are truly ironic and provocative. Today, by recognising the independence of Kosovo, the Council and the Commission are infringing them all, as well as UN Security Council Resolution 1244 of 1999, according to which Kosovo is part of Serbian territory. This is a flagrant redrawing of the borders, enforced and masterminded by the United States with the cooperation of the EU itself. Stop this hypocrisy! For two years now you have been debating about how Kosovo will become independent and how the EU will send troops to protect its interests in the region. We believe that the situation is extremely serious. It will trigger new points of tension and destabilisation for the Balkans in the short term, and throughout the world in the long term, because it will constitute a new precedent. Your imperialist dogma of ‘divide and rule’ is well known. There are plans to carve up a great number of countries throughout the world so that you can control them. We believe that the peoples of the Balkans and Kosovan residents of Albanian origin will find themselves facing a new storm resulting from the clashes between the United States, the EU and Russia. That explains our opposition. We believe that governments ought not to recognise this ‘state’, which will be a protectorate in the future, and we think that the peoples of the Balkans and Europe should not allow it."@en1

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