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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am in almost full agreement with what Mrs Napoletano has just said. I say ‘almost’ because I think that ultimately we need to bear in mind certainly Damascus, certainly other capitals, but in particular the fact that in Lebanon what they are facing, in apparently new forms now, is a policy of systematic assassination of one’s opponents. The more popular they were, the more likely the former communist leader, and all of them, were to be killed in this series of assassinations.
We therefore can – and must – certainly pay attention to the diplomatic dimension, but unless we remember that in today’s Middle East, as in Europe in 1937, 1938 and 1939, what is being faced is on the one hand an assassination policy and on the other the political reality of victims in the name of freedom, even of enemies, I do not believe we can find the right direction, a direction that can only be given by Europe if it remembers that it was itself delivered from having to renounce national sovereignties, for which reason we have not had wars in Europe in recent years, except in Yugoslavia and elsewhere. That was the imperative, and should also be so in the Middle East: to have something based on freedom and human rights as opposed to the ostracism and blackmail of the dictatorships of the 1930s, and those today in the Middle East and Far East."@en1
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