European Parliament
Alavanos (GUE/NGL ).
(EL)
Mr President, I have a number of questions for Mr Solana, who was also the Secretary General of ΝΑΤΟ when the intervention was made in the former Yugoslavia.
Mr High Representative,
- Why is Milosevic one thing and Sharon another?
- Why is the autocratic government which existed in the former Yugoslavia one thing and the government of Israel, whose members talk officially about the murder of Arafat, another?
- Why is the KLA one thing and the jihad another?
- Why are Kosovars, who have other rights, one thing and the Palestinians another?
- How much longer are we going to have two sets of standards and such hypocrisy?
- Why are we searching power stations in Iran with a magnifying glass and no one is telling us what nuclear weapons Israel has?
- Why is there an international alliance and ‘desert storm’ when Saddam Hussein attacks Kuwait and just a few paltry announcements when Israel attacks Syria?
- Why with the Berlin wall do we say ‘good-bye Lenin’ and with the Palestinian wall do we say ‘good morning Sharon’?
- How far will we go?
- Where is Europe?
- Why is Europe paralysed?
- Why does Europe have no voice when the United States does have a voice?
- Why does Europe not take a specific initiative at the United Nations for there to be international forces in the area of tension between Israel and Palestine?

