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"Mr President, these four walls have already witnessed heated debates on other occasions in favour of the war, in favour of military intervention, allegedly as a means of resolving conflicts. Iraq and Afghanistan, for example. In no way whatsoever do I share people’s need to turn Syria into another Iraq or Afghanistan, where insecurity has increased, where death and destruction have been caused, and the Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan. Yes, the Taliban. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, al-Qaeda was not responsible, and yet intervention took place. All to create a more unjust world. In Syria, we have to condemn Mr Assad’s crimes and repression, but also those of the opposition, as well as the opposition’s terrorist acts, jihad and links with al-Qaeda. The only possible solution is peace. Therefore, we should support the United Nations special envoy and make all the states in the region, including Iran, commit to a ceasefire so that the Syrian people can decide their own future, but not in order to establish a government of one colour or another according to whatever most suits each particular state, as the United States and Saudi Arabia do. Absolutely not. We should do so in order for the Syrian people to be free to decide their own future, and to put an end to this horrendous civil war. This is no time to be adding fuel to the fire, Mr Verhofstadt. That is not the point, and we should not push for a foreign military intervention that will lead to chaos in the region – nothing but chaos."@en1
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