European Parliament
Dupuis (NI ).
(FR)
Mr President, during the European Union-Russia Summit in St. Petersburg, we faced a cornucopia of totally unacceptable statements from the Council, but even more so from the Commission. At this summit, indeed, Mr Prodi drowned the Chechen question in vodka and caviar. These positions are fundamentally opposed to those of the European Parliament.
I am astonished (I address these remarks to chairmen of groups, and of course also to you, Mr President) that the question of a report by President Prodi and the Council on Chechnya, and on European Union-Russian relations in general, is not on the agenda either for this part-session or for the Brussels mini-session.

