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"Madam President, Richard Holbrooke, to whom I also pay a heartfelt tribute, said before he died, “We must end the war in Afghanistan”. The fact is, that this country is vital for European and global security, and it is for this reason, as Pino Arlacchi’s report details very well, that we need to correct the huge errors committed in the move to investing in ‘Afghanisation’ and putting the human safety of the Afghan people first, which involves a responsibility to protect on the part of the foreign forces present.
Let us not deceive ourselves: the rule of law and democratic institutions cannot be constructed by corrupt warlords, discredited in the eyes of the people. Ending the war in Afghanistan also depends on the control that the democratically elected government has over the military power of its neighbour Pakistan, a nuclear power on the margins of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Provided they end their policy of burying their heads in the sand with regard to these fundamental political questions, Europeans within the European Union and NATO may be able to help end the war in Afghanistan, and also the descent into hell in Pakistan."@en1
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