WRITTEN QUESTION E-0856/02 by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Council. Murders committed by Ariel Sharon's troops in Palestinian refugee camps.
Date: 2002-03-27
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Israel, Palestine question, UNO, crime against individuals, refugee, the EU's international role

14.11.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 277 E/97

Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating
to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers (2) and will make it mandatory for all categories of
vehicles instead of being voluntary within the type-approval system for light and heavy duty commercial
vehicles. The Commission welcomes the initiative taken by the Netherlands to go even further and to
introduce these mandatory harmonised requirements also for existing goods vehicles.

3.
The Commission will indeed investigate the costs and benefits of equipping existing goods vehicles
with such mirrors and vision enhancement systems and will, if justified, propose corresponding European
legislation.

(1) COM(2001) 811 final.
(2) OJ L 42, 23.2.1970 as last amended OJ L 232, 23.8.1997.

(2002/C 277 E/108)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0856/02

by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Council

(27 March 2002)

Subject: Murders committed by Ariel Sharon’s troops in Palestinian refugee camps

It is clear that the end of the conflict between Israel and Palestine can come about only through the mutual
recognition of both states and that, in the meantime, all violence must cease. A particularly cruel form of
violence 9 which can be compared to that suffered by Jews in Europe 60 years ago 9 is being practised
by Ariel Sharon’s troops, who have again murdered 22 people in a Palestinian refugee camp, as well as
holding thousands of Palestinians in disgraceful conditions.

What effective measures will the Council take in the face of these acts, which arouse feelings of horror and
shame in all right-minded people?

(2002/C 277 E/109)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0859/02

by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Council

(27 March 2002)

Subject: Ariel Sharon’s murders in Ramallah

On 12 March, after two murders had been committed in Bethlehem, Ariel Sharon’s troops murdered 25
Palestinians in Ramallah.

How long is the European Union going to wait before taking a firm and final stance against this head of
government, as a necessary step in order to secure peace between the State of Israel and a Palestine which
has been recognised as a State?

Joint answer
to Written Questions E-0856/02 and E-0859/02

(22 July 2002)

The Council will not comment on the specific allegation referred to by the Honourable Member of the
European Parliament about which it does not have all the necessary facts. In its declaration on behalf of
the European Union of 20 April 2002, the Presidency stressed the importance of the initiative taken by the
Secretary-General of the United Nations to obtain detailed information on the events that took place in the
Jenin refugee camp. Furthermore, the European Union has urgently called for medical and humanitarian
organisations to have immediate access to the Palestinian population as called for in the UN Security
Council Resolution 1405 of 19 April 2002, which stated its concern at the ‘dire humanitarian situation’ of
that population.