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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to vote on an agreement which is highly unusual in that it relates, in part, to what the United Nations has ruled is illegally occupied territory. This means that we are not only talking about Morocco’s natural resources, which are the subject of this agreement, but about the national resources of a people that does not have the right – or that has not had the right – to self-determination.
As a Portuguese Member, I am bound to remember the case of Timor-Leste, when the European Union repeatedly censured Australia for being in negotiations with Indonesia over the resources of an illegally occupied country. No Member who defended the Timorese cause in this House can, with a clear conscience, vote for such an agreement, which would make the European Union the beneficiary of resources that do not belong to it any more than they do to the state with which it is negotiating, and which would make us accomplices in a robbery for which there has, to date, been no compensation and which has not, to date, been put right.
There cannot be any agreement concerning the natural resources of a people that has not had the right to self-determination, while that people is unable to discuss its resources."@en1
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