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"Mr President, the events of the last 24 hours mean that we are not debating the provenness of chemical weapons but the provenness of their disposal.
From Northern Ireland, in my own country, to what the European Union itself did in Indonesia, to what Germany and others are doing today in Libya, there is a wealth of international experience to verify decommissioning.
The credibility of the Russian offer will now depend on the validity of the decommissioning process. For me, that means it being undertaken within a United Nations framework and in the context of a UN resolution enabling the international community to coalesce towards ending all crimes against humanity and war crimes in Syria.
My party, Britain’s Labour Party, concluded that the British Prime Minister had failed to make the case for military action. Yes, of course, lessons had to be learned about Iraq, but this week’s events in Syria show the foolishness of prematurely ending the work of weapons inspectors when that work has just become very much more substantial.
The prospect of military action did not simply cause desperately-needed humanitarian workers to be removed from the country, but also alienated some in the MENA region and amongst the BRIC countries who are most needed to meet their pledges for humanitarian assistance.
Europe must lead the argument for the UN appeal to be met in full, using this month’s annual meeting of the UNHCR as a real opportunity to do so. Food will run out next month. The size of food parcels has already been made smaller. Our ambition should be to prevent chemical attacks but, at one and the same time, to secure peace."@en1
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