Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-11-19-Speech-3-025"
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"en.20081119.3.3-025"2
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"Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, at this moment in time, the world’s powers are tackling the international financial system. They are trying to get it under control, and not before time. It is also perhaps time that we solved another problem that we have been talking about for decades.
For years, we have been listening to tales of the shameful pillaging of resources. How many times, and now again in the Congo, have we heard about the blood of people being shed? I believe it is also time to prosecute these companies, halt this disgraceful trade and freeze the accounts holding the shameful profits from this exploitation of mineral resources at the cost of the blood and suffering of people.
I do not understand why these companies are not listed in the same way as we blacklist terrorist organisations. I do not understand why the international community is incapable of prosecuting these businesspeople who are not strictly businesspeople, but actually bandits who are threatening regional and world security.
I urge the French Presidency and the Commission to lead an international initiative in this respect."@en1
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