Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-12-16-Speech-3-240"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2009-12-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20091216.16.3-240"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-12-16-Speech-3-2412
lpv:speaker	lp:Jim Higgins2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, in 1960, the Swedish Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld, asked the Irish troops to go as peacemakers into what was then the Belgian Congo, which became the Congo. They did a tremendous job. I am extremely worried about the role of the United Nations troops in the Congo at present: the Moroccans, the Pakistanis and the Indians. We are talking about rape, violence, trading and so on, but the United Nations troops there are not covering themselves in glory and are actually doing a disservice. I agree completely with Mr Mitchell, that the European Union needs to take a firmer hand. We are a European Union, totally united. We did excellent work in Chad. We need our own peacekeepers in there and we cannot rely on the United Nations. The situation is that we have a beautiful people, victims of European colonisation, victims of tribal conflict, victims of international blindness, and we cannot be blind any longer. We simply have to go in and save those people."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Jim Higgins (PPE )."1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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