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"Mr President, a month ago, our High Representative, Baroness Ashton, was here, and I voiced my regret, indeed my protest, at the fact that she was very quick to defend the oil company Repsol, while saying nothing about Guinea-Bissau. Back then, she promised me that she would take the appropriate measures, and that she would be attentive to the plight of Guinea-Bissau. One month later, we see that Baroness Ashton is not present at this debate on Guinea-Bissau. This is regrettable, and once again confirms what my fellow Member, Mr Rangel, has already described as the invisibility of the problem of Guinea-Bissau, which owes much to the region in which it is located. Above all, we are faced with a people that does not want a failed state, has done everything to prevent it, and has to contend with two forces constantly seeking to make the country a failed state: the military and drug trafficking. Indeed, these two forces are interconnected. Much more can be done for Guinea-Bissau, and the country’s problems can be solved.
The deposed President and Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau are now in Portugal seeking support in order to make the military give up power and ensure the resumption of the democratic process. The United Nations resolutions, in particular Resolution 2048, are correct in their analysis of what needs to be done. I also fully subscribe to what our own European External Action Service has said in this debate. Actions, not words, are the only way to tackle this problem. Why is the EU not doing more, for instance, by requesting a high-level bilateral meeting with the Economic Community of West African States, which has taken an attitude of acceptance, thereby legitimising a
accepting the installation of a transitional president and a series of measures that are simply unacceptable?
The only acceptable solution is to implement the UN resolution and to send a stabilisation and peacekeeping force, with the consent of the Guinean people. This would allow the legitimate rulers of the country to return, and would provide the EU with an opportunity to try to remedy some of its mistakes, in particular, by withdrawing its mission to Guinea-Bissau, which was in place precisely in order to help the transition and the civilisation, in the strict sense of the word, of the military forces within the country. Without such efforts, Guinea-Bissau will never know the peace, stability and prosperity that it needs and desires so desperately, and for which its people have been working so hard."@en1
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