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"Madam President, I wonder first of all what point there is in parliamentarians here spending time debating this topic when there is nothing new on the table to be discussed. The fact is that parliamentarians here are going to have little effect on the situation and the Commission is not even here to listen to what we have to say, and they, after all, have their hands on the money pot of humanitarian aid and all of those things.
We are discussing the situation at a time when Syria is still in flames, when Hamas is once again flexing its terrorist muscles from Gaza, terrorist anarchy reigns in Libya and Iran continues with its nuclear and missile programmes.
Of course it is very much in the interest of our democracies that peace, stability and security should reign in Iraq. We have spent massive sums, including a billion from the European Union, on Iraq but a quarter of Iraq’s population still lives on two dollars a day, or less. The water supply, sewerage systems, power systems are all broken in spite of enormous international spending. Of course we do not want to see the re-emergence of another terrorist host state in the region and now we have this murderous ISIS army threatening Baghdad itself.
The last international conference on Iraq was in 2003. Do you not think it is time for the United Nations to call a fresh conference in order to stabilise the political and economic situation in Iraq before it spirals out of control, and can we have a close look at what our money has been spent on?"@en1
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