Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-12-16-Speech-3-161"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2009-12-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:New EU action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20091216.14.3-161"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-12-16-Speech-3-1622
lpv:speaker	lp:José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-neyra2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; SEDE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 chair; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partido Popular (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; BUDG (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2009-07-24--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the international community, and not just the United States, has a problem in Afghanistan. President Obama has taken three months to establish a global strategy in response to General McChrystal’s alarming report. It is well known that that new strategy involves short-term reinforcement of military presence, withdrawal in 2011, progressive transferral of aspects of security to the Afghan forces, better coordination between civilian and military efforts and concentration on large cities. Now, Mrs Ashton, the great challenge is to articulate and identify a European response, mainly at the London Conference. In your statement, you referred to two key words. You said that our response must be coordinated with other international bodies and we support coordination with the United Nations. You also said that our response must be coherent. I have two comments in this respect, Mrs Ashton. In 2005, I had the privilege to lead a Parliament electoral observation mission and I had the opportunity to meet the head of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Lieutenant-General Graziano, whose tour of duty in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is coming to an end. The 44 countries in ISAF today (28 of them NATO countries) constitute a heterogeneous force that is not providing an effective response in the current fight against insurgents. The second vital aspect, Mrs Ashton, is that a war cannot be won – and there is currently a war in progress in Afghanistan – without having the civilian population on our side, on the side of the international coalition. I believe, Mrs Ashton, that one of the European Union’s main objectives should be to concentrate our efforts, which involve EUR 1 billion of the European Union’s money, on ensuring that the civilian population is on our side."@en1
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