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dcterms:Date	"2012-05-23"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120523.18.3-392-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-05-23-Speech-3-393-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Nicolai Wammen2
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am pleased to have the opportunity today, on behalf of High Representative/Vice-President Ashton, to discuss the situation in Guinea-Bissau, and I welcome the attention that the European Parliament is giving to it. The international community needs to stand united. In this regard, the High Representative has encouraged ECOWAS and the AU to bring the concerned partners of the international community together to mobilise coherent political and financial support for the road map for a return to constitutional order and security sector reform. To this end, a contact group of the international community could usefully be launched. The current crisis in Guinea-Bissau clearly reveals once more an attempt by the military to get involved in civilian affairs and gain control of the political affairs of the country. The country remains one of the poorest in the world, ravaged by drug trafficking, and its problems directly affect Europe through the drug trade. The way to a solution is to persuade the military to step aside and to reform the army. Only then can the country be ruled by civilians legitimated by free and fair elections. The EU strongly condemned the military coup in Guinea-Bissau on 12 April 2012. We called for the immediate re-establishment of the legitimate government and for the completion of the presidential elections in compliance with the law. We welcome the adoption on 18 May of UNSC Resolution 2048/2012 on Guinea-Bissau, imposing individual sanctions on coup leaders and demanding the immediate restoration of the constitutional order, including a democratic electoral process, the return of the military to barracks and their withdrawal from political affairs. The UN Security Council also underlined that those responsible for the human rights violations must be held accountable, and that any lasting solution to instability in Guinea-Bissau should ensure that those responsible for politically-motivated assassinations, other serious crimes and breaches of constitutional order are brought to justice. We reiterate our strong condemnation of the coup, and encourage all stakeholders to work within the framework of Security Council Resolution 2048 with a view to agreeing on an inclusive road map with agreed benchmarks and a calendar for the return to constitutional order, the implementation of security sector reform, fighting against impunity, combating drug trafficking and the removal of any army grip on power. We stand ready to actively support mediation efforts in the current crisis towards the identification of an inclusive transitional arrangement. We renew our call for the immediate release of all illegally detained persons and for the immediate suspension of the Military Command’s prohibition on persons, including members of the former government, leaving the country. The EU has already adopted sanctions against six members of the Military Command and is ready to extend the list to other persons, military and political, who are governing the country and may be responsible for human rights violations and abuses, including arbitrary detentions, ill-treatment during detention and violent repression of peaceful demonstrations, as well as looting and mismanagement of public funds. We already suspended most of our aid last year, and the primary condition for its resumption is local agreement to reform the security sector. We are also concerned about the deteriorating human situation and the constant risk of violence. Moreover, we are concerned about the possibility of arrangements that would allow the current leaders of the armed forces to continue to threaten or control the civil powers. Democratic stability in Guinea-Bissau requires the removal of the threat represented by the armed forces, and the reform of the security sector remains an urgent necessity. Those responsible for anti-constitutional behaviour or crimes must be held to account; any agreement must be inclusive and democratic; the military must not be allowed, in any case, to dictate who does or does not participate in politics. We are monitoring the latest political and security-related developments in this light."@en1
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