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De baltiske stater, og jeg mener at kende dem særdeles godt — også fra besøg —, frygter faren for bonapartisme i USSR.
A second observation, Mr President, for which I can personally vouch, is the universal, manifest and indisputable priority accorded today by the citizens of the Baltic states to the question of their independence.
Marskalerne skraber allerede med fødderne. Lægger de an til spring, kunne det politisk betyde en ny istid.
I did in fact have for three days the opportunity of meeting and speaking with the President of the Lithuanian Republic as also with most of the members of the Lithuanian Government.
Jeg tror ikke, man her i Vesten tager det så alvorligt, som det faktisk er. Vi nøjes med gentagne sympatitilkendegivelser, men også de slides, som jeg sagde i indledningen.
Allow me now. Mr President, to greet with particular pleasure and emotion the presence, in the gallery of this Chamber, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, who became my friend during my stay there ...
Schönhuber (NI). — (DE) Hr. formand, mine damer og herrer, alt slides, navnlig beslutninger, der gentages i et væk.
... and I should like to say that, besides the members of the government, I had the opportunity to meet many representatives of local government and many ordinary people in the streets of Vilnius and Kaunas.
De tages, når de ikke følges op af handlinger, næppe til efterretning eller fører til det modsatte af, hvad man ville med dem. Ifølge et gammelt ord er velment det modsatte af godt.
Neither the long dominance of the Communist party — of which many of them were prominent members — nor the privations due to the tragic economic situation in which their country finds itself today diminishes in the slightest degree the thirst of the Lithuanian people for independence, freedom ad democracy.
Jeg forstår godt — det er ædle og gode motiver — at nogle medlemmer af Europa-Parlamentet i lighed med nogle ministre prædiker tålmodighed og anbefaler mådehold.
Even if we are already banking on Boris Yeltsin rather than President Gorbachev, we should not profess to withdraw our support for Gorbachev in the interests of a possible Yeltsin option, if nothing else.
Men glem ikke — og jeg ved, at alle her er historisk bevidste — at de baltiske stater allerede i halvtreds år har levet i ufrihed og under trykkelse.
It is true that public opinion in the Soviet Union is not behind President Gorbachev, but we should not think that this means we can take advantage of the situation to save a few pennies.
Deres tålmodighed er spændt til bristepunktet. Hitlers og Stalins skygger hviler tungt på dem.
Now in the time to channel aid, open dialogue, put programmes into effect — without giving offence to what they call 'the centre' — starting with programmes in the federated republics — in Armenia, Georgia, Moldavia, Russia and the Ukraine.
Jeg vil fremsætte et konkret forslag, måske er det noget utopisk. Gorbatjov talte i sine velmagtsdage altid om et europæisk hus, der skulle tilstræbes, og som USSR også skulle med i engang.
So, we support the Baltic states without seeking to fan the flames; we continue to give our backing to President Gorbachev; we secure agreement from Gorbachev that if support and aid from the EC is to be maintained, it must increasingly be organized directly by the Community in conjunction with the various republics, and then distributed directly to the republics with the assistance of the centre.
Vandemeulebroucke (ARC). — (NL) Hr. formand, i de sidste to uger er der fremkommet en række nye elementer.
Mr President, it is perhaps unfortunate that circumstances impose upon us the necessity of discussing at the same time these two topics that are very serious indeed and which will undeniably influence most profoundly political developments in the world and in Europe.
Først og fremmest var der udsættelsen af Bush/Gorbatjov-topmødet. Mon ikke situationen i de baltiske lande har spillet en væsentlig rolle her.
Our friends in the Baltic states are not unawere of the critical nature of these present circumstances and I am sure they understand the reason for the somewhat luke-warm manner in which we are examining their problems.
Vi må ikke overdrive den kendsgerning, at Bush har frie hænder i Golfstaterne, men det må heller ikke være sådan, at Gorbatjov får frie hænder i de baltiske lande.
However, I should like to reassure them that these problems have not ceased to occupy our minds even for a second and that their problems are indeed our problems.
Lad os følge eksemplet med de mange solidaritetsbesøg i Israel, lad os virkelig sende en fremstående delegation til Vilnius, Riga og Tallinn.
STAVROU (PPE). — (GK) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the political standpoint of the European People's Party on the situation obtaining today in the Baltic states is clear-cut.
Det ville hjælpe de baltiske stater og desuden svække det indtryk, der er fremherskende der, at de baltiske staters uafhængighedsbestræbelser kun spiller anden violin.
It was spelt out in this Chamber a short time ago by its chairman Mr Tindemans.
Desuden kunne man undersøge, hvor alvorligt Gorbatjov mener det med samarbejdet, og om han overhovedet stadig er i stand dertil, hvilket jeg personlig betvivler.
I simply wish to add that this standpoint rests on two central bases, which are at the same time two observations deriving from the political developments in those countries up till today.
Andet element er den konservative fløjs voksende magt i Sovjetunionen. Vi kender stadig væk ikke noget til præsident Gorbatjovs situation.
COX (LDR). — Mr President, on my own and on my group's behalf I would like to begin by welcoming the Foreign Minister from Lithuania here today, and I am extremely pleased to see that the able to join us for this debate.
Det hjælper ikke de baltiske stater meget, at man lader dem forstå, at Kuwait-problemet skal løses først.
I was extremely pleased to hear from Commissioner Andriessen the balance in this comments regarding aid to the Soviet Union, part of which is proceeding on an emergency aid basis, part of which he is hesitating on, and for part of which implementation has been suspended.
For de baltiske lande er og bliver den sovjetiske militærmagt en latent fare, og de har ret: Erklærede den amerikanske forsvarsminister, Cheney, ikke så sent som for et par dage siden, at sovjetmagten er og bliver den militære trussel nr. 1.
I think we should try to maintain that balance in our approach to the overall aid package.
Tredje element er de bebudede folkeafstemninger den 17. marts i alle delrepublikker. Næste lørdag foretages der en opinionsmåling i Litauen.
The first observation is the fact that the Baltic states constitute an entirely separate case in relation to the other republics that today make up the Soviet Union.
Da Den Europæiske Politiske Union endnu ikke findes, vil et land som Danmark eller som Irland kunne anerkende de baltiske landes bestræbelser efter uafhængighed. Irland vil kunne gøre det, men også Danmark, Norge og Sverige samt neutrale lande som
And that is, I believe, the idea of the referendum that has been decided on in Lithuania and whose implementation has been put in doubt by the official Soviet authorities.
Mange vestlige politikere, jeg synes navnlig fra mit land, Tyskland, har svært ved at vurdere situationen nøgternt.
There are a number of specific questions which I would like to put to the Commissioner.
De vil simpelt hen bevare det billede af Gorbatjov, der igennem årene er blevet tegnet med så megen sympati, mere eller mindre pletfrit.
He asked at the end of his remarks for assistance to be given on an emergency basis to Romania and Bulgaria.
Han har desuden omgivet sig med forbundsfæller, som ikke lover godt for de baltiske stater.
Secondly, I would like to ask the Commissioner what formal response there has been
Da Den Europæiske Politiske Union endnu ikke findes den dag i dag, bør vi med en række små lande kunne skabe retten til autonomi.
Thirdly, what meetings, if any, are continuing at official level between the Commission and the Soviet authorities and have such meetings been suspended ?
Det er Regnbuegruppens mål: anerkendelse af ethvert folks rettigheder.
Fourthly, I would like to know if the Commissioner can tell us that steps have been taken to place the Baltic states issue on the CSCE agenda in relation to the Paris Charter?
fjerne støtten til Gorbatjov — ikke engang i en eventuelt Jeltsin-løsnings interesse.
Mr President, we have to make sure that the aid we send does not end up in the hands of the nomenklatura of the Soviet Communist Party, or perhaps worse still the Soviet army or the KGB.
Det er rigtigt, at den offentlige opinion i Sovjetunionen ikke er for Gorbatjov; men vi bør heller ikke få den til at tro, at vi udnytter lejligheden til at spare et par øre.
Sadly, power in the USSR clearly resides in those hands, and we must look to the republics.
Jeg forelagde for nylig Kommissionen et forslag til et samarbejde med Jerevan-universitetet.
We should be cautious, yes, but no longer too fearful of undermining Mr Gorbachev's position.
Kommissionen tog det til efterretning, men ville først planlægge en delegation til alle republikker — det synes jeg er en god proces.
It is more important that we demonstrate clear support for the forces of democracy.
Stavrou (PPE). --(GR) Hr. formand, Det Europæiske Folkepartis politiske standpunkter i forbindelse med den aktuelle situation i de baltiske lande er helt klare. Formanden, hr. Tindemans, har netop gjort rede for dem her i forsamlingen.
I agree fully with what Mr Tindemans said earlier, that we must constantly reiterate at every opportunity the de jure position of the Baltic states.
Jeg vil blot supplere med at sige, at de bygger på to centrale akser. To akser, som samtidig er to kendsgerninger, der er en følge af den hidtidige politiske udvikling i disse lande.
Mr Vandemeulebroucke said he did not know what Mr Gorbachev's opinion was in relation to what happened in Vilnius and Latvia, but the record fails to show any stout condemnation on Mr Gorbachev's part of what happened, and we are entitled to deduce from that that he knows and does not care too much.
Coimbra Martins (S). - - (PT) Hr. formand, jeg synes, vi er ved at nå et kritisk spændingspunkt mellem de baltiske stater og Sovjetunionen, og dette kritiske punkt stiller os i et dilemma: Vi kan ikke lade være med at bifalde de beslutninger, der er et resultat af disse baltiske staters modstand mod deres integration i Sovjetunionen, og disse beslutninger resulterer i folkeafstemninger, hvoraf den første finder sted næste lørdag. Så får vi folkeafstemningskrig.
GOEDMAKERS (S). — (NL) Mr President, last week during the plenary meeting, we entered into debate with Mr Andriessen about food aid and emergency aid to the Soviet Union.
Vi vil ikke forværre den alvorlige situation, Sovjetunionen befinder sig i.
I explained on that occasion that Parliament's position was not opposed to that food aid and emergency aid but that it found unacceptable the cover sought for that food aid.
Balterne mener, at de bør genvinde deres uafhængighed og få den anerkendt, inden situationen i Moskva forværres.
That was because cover was sought in part from food aid for the Third World.
Denne uafhængighed ville være den bedste måde til at beskytte balterne mod en kamp, der ikke vedrører dem.
I proposed at the time that use of last year's appropriations for the EAGGF (guarantee section) would be acceptable to us as cover for this aid.
Dog mener jeg, at Gorbatjov virkelig har brug for et pusterum. Han befinder sig i en situation, der ligner den, Lenin var i, da han erklærede NEP.
Furthermore 1 would like to reiterate the comment made by my colleague, Mr Kofoed.
Jeg mener, at Gorbatjov vil fortsætte med reformerne efter at have opnået en stabilisering — først reformer på økonomisk plan og dernæst reformer på politisk plan.
It represents is a show of solidarity and something which the states themselves have requested, and I feel that it is something which we should today be in a position to hear about through you, Mr President.
At lade tvivlen komme ham til gode er meget risikabelt; at lade være er lige så risikabelt. Chancerne for en fredelig omstrukturering i Sovjet unionen svinder mere og mere; kaos eller borgerkrig er det værste af alt.
What has happened in the enlarged Bureau to give to Parliament's decision ? We need first hand information.
Allerede ved perestrojkas start sagde modstanderne i Moskva: »Efter perestrojka kommer perestrelka«. Det er et ordspil, perestrelka betyder slagsmål, la bagarre, som franskmændene siger.
My final comment is that I deplore the intervention by an un-named Member State which, in the name of solidarity at the level of the Council, insisted that the Presidency should stay away, and I deplore the fact that the Presidency did not repudiate that and attend in any event.
Bliver Gorbatjov-løsningen brændt af, vokser Jeltsin-løsningen jo, og det spiller de baltiske stater på, da denne vil være kompatibel med disse staters uafhængighed.
During the meeting of the Committee on Budgets this week, it was my understanding that things would indeed go that way.
Desværre er der også en anden mulighed: diktaturet, det som Sjevardnadze på for hånd tog afstand fra.
If that is the case, there will be no further obstacle as far as Parliament is concerned.
I og med at vi støtter de baltiske stater i virkeliggørelsen af deres forhåbninger, er det dog ikke vor opgave at bidrage til, at deres situation tilspidses, ej heller at handle, som om vi havde opgivet håbet om Gorbatjovs reformpolitik.
I share Mr Andriessen's pleasure that in this way it has been possible to resolve the problem to everyone's satisfaction.
Og selv om vi faktisk skulle have opgivet håbet, kan vi ikke ved at indstille den tekniske og finansielle hjælp også optræde som perestrojkas gravere. Det kan vi ikke.
I am assuming that the rumours I hear in the lobbies, namely that the Council, because of that same cover problem, has reduced the emergency aid to Bulgaria and Romania from 100 million to 30, million, are without foundation, and that we together, Commission and Parliament, will be using the appropriations that have not been taken up against the EAGGF(guaran-tee section).
Derfor mener jeg, at vor holdning bør være at støtte de baltiske stater som led i den samme holdning over for Sovjetunionen, hvilket bør føre til, at vi definerer den globale strategi, der bedst tjener fredens og demokratiets sag til gavn for alle folkeslag, der udgør Sovjetunionen. Træet må ikke skjule skoven, bør ikke skjule skoven.
BRU PURON (S). — (ES) Mr President, I think the Commission will be acting consistently in maintaining the aid provided under the budget for the Soviet Union, but it might sound a note of warning on the linkage between aid and the development of perestroika, pointing out that aid is liable to be withdrawn unless further progress is made.
Den ene kendsgerning er, at de baltiske lande er et fuldstændigt isoleret tilfælde, som adskiller sig fra de øvrige republikker, der udgør Sovjetunionen i dag.
PRICE (ED). — Mr President, a speaker said earlier that we could do little at this stage.
Indlemmelsen af disse lande på grundlag af en forkastelig aftale kort før Anden Verdenskrig kan ikke være noget argument for, at de baltiske lande skal forblive i et forbund af lande, som de ikke selv har ønsket eller valgt at gå ind i.
On the contrary, Parliament is being asked to exercise its budgetary powers in respect of over ECU 1 billion of aid to the Soviet Union. How we deal with that issue in the next two weeks will be a great importance.
Hvis der stadig er nogen, der tror, at de tre baltiske landes politiske vilje er ændret i løbet af de halvtreds års tvungne samliv, på grund af enten vane eller interesse, må vi give dem ret til og mulighed for selv at fortælle os det.
Mr Andriessen urged that the ECU 250 million, which he now describes as emergency aid, should go through as quickly as possible.
De bør selv tilkendegive deres mening angående deres egen fremtid. Og dette tror jeg er meningen med den folkeafstemning, som man har besluttet skal afholdes i Litauen, og som de officielle sovjetiske myndigheder nu er begyndt at sætte spørgsmålstegn ved.
I think we should support that call, subject to one condition; that we are satisfied as to who will receive the aid.
Det glæder mig, at næstformanden, hr. Andriessen, berørte dette spørgsmål med den klarhed, som altid kendetegner hans udtalelser. ser.
I want to ask him tonight to tell us what channels would be used to receive and distribute that aid if it is granted.
Men selv om vi allerede nu satsede på Boris Jeltsin og ikke på Gorbatjov, burde vi ikke demonstrativt
That message should also go to the Baltic states, as a call for patience, understanding and dialogue on their part.
En anden kendsgerning, som jeg personligt kan vidne om her, er de baltiske borgeres totale, åbenlyse
Recent events in the Baltic states, particularly Lithuania, should lead us to adopt, I believe, a more robust attitude to Mr Gorbachev.
Stavrou og utvetydige prioritering af uafhængighedssagen.
I cannot furnish a recipe in this respect for the coming years.
Jeg har faktisk haft lejlighed til under et 3-dages besøg at møde og tale med Litauens præsident samt med de fleste medlemmer af den litauiske regering.
It is a political assessment that has to be remade each time and on which we need to remain in discussion with both you and the Council.
For det tredje, hvilke eventuelle møder fortsættes på officielt plan mellem Kommissionen og de sovjetiske myndigheder, eller er sådanne møder blevet indstillet?
It is the Commission's opinion that the 100 million for aid to Bulgaria and Romania ought to be bound by transferring funds from last year's surplus on the EAGGF (guarantee section,.
For det fjerde vil jeg gerne vide, om kommissæren kan fortælle os, hvilke skridt der er taget til at sætte spørgsmålet om de baltiske stater på CSCE's dagsorden med hensyn til Paris-charteret? ret?
To date the Council has not subscribed to that standpoint and suggests a three-way division: a 30 million transfer, 40 million budget — read PHARE moneys, namely those intended for other purposes in Central and Eastern Europe — and 30 million from the budget heading food aid for other countries.
... og jeg vil gerne sige, at jeg foruden regeringsmedlemmerne også havde lejlighed til at træffe mange repræsentanter fra den lokale administration samt mange andre mennesker, som jeg mødte på gaderne i Vilnius og Kaunas.
The Commission rejects that and has done so, through myself, in the Council up to and including last Monday. The impression is that this matteris moving in the right direction even if no definite decisions have been taken.
Hverken det langvarige med lemskab af Det Kommunistiske Parti — hvor mange af dem har været med i de ledende kredse — eller afsavnene på grund af den tragiske økonomiske situation, som deres land befinder sig i i dag, rokker det mindste ved det litauiske folks tørst efter uafhængighed, frihed og demokrati.
We cannot accept that additional efforts decided on at the meeting of the European Council in Rome should be financed at the expense of programmes that are not extravagant, that have other destinations and that we shall badly need on connection with our general approach to tackling external policy.
Jeg er fuldstændig enig i det, hr. Tindemans sagde tidligere, nemlig at vi konstant ved enhver lejlighed må gentage de baltiske staters de /«re-position.
the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. But having tolerated this situation for 50 years, them in oppression while we remained indifferent, I think we now all want independence for the Baltic states, and we can afford to be patient for 50 days or 50 months, since we cannot do everything overnight.
De blev ulovligt annekteret og udgør et specielt tilfælde i Sovjetunionen.
What can happen overnight is revolution in the Soviet Union, since there is an immediate threat of a coup d'état in favour of a nonideological but military dictatorship.
Hr. Vandemeulebroucke sagde, at han ikke vidste, hvad hr. Gorbatjovs holdning var til det, der skete i Vilnius og Latvia, men der er ikke dokumenteret nogen stærk fordømmelse fra hr. Gorbatjovs side af det, der skete, og vi er berettigede til at udlede heraf, at han er vidende herom og er ret ligeglad.
We all know that. We know that the achievements under Gorbachev are impressive in historical terms, but that you cannot move in a few years from a completely totalitarian state to one which Recognizes democratic rights — and see this every day — with freedom, political parties and the election of the president himself in an open contest in the Supreme Soviet.
Hr. formand, det er måske et uheldigt sammentræf, som har gjort det nødvendigt for os at drøfte disse to alvorlige spørgsmål samtidig, spørgsmål som utvivlsomt vil have en dyb effekt på den politiske udvikling i verden og i Europa.
We know that economically the aim was to move towards a market system, which has created chaos of a kind likely to make some people long for a return to central planning.
Vore venner i de baltiske lande er ikke uvidende om alvoren af de aktuelle begivenheder, og jeg er sikker på, at de forstår den lunkenhed, hvormed vi i dag behandler deres problemer.
We know that in political and geopolitical terms, historic and necessary events have been allowed to take place, but that the Soviet Union has suffered for them — these include German unification, the immediate integration of a united Germany into the Atlantic Alliance and the break-up of the Warsaw Pact.
Jeg vil imidlertid gerne forsikre dem om, at deres problemer ikke et øjeblik har været ude af vore tanker, og at de også er vore egne problemer.
All this could bring about a dictatorship, and we need to consider very carefully what we are to do.
Endvidere vil jeg gerne gentage det, hr. Kofoed sagde.
We have endeavoured to tackle the whole problem of the Baltic states in the framework of the CSCE process, but that is an approach that can work only where it is unanimously accepted.
Parlamentet bør udvise større pågåenhed i spørgsmålet om en delegation til de baltiske stater.
That unanimity has not been forthcoming, so this way cannot lead to any genuine results.
Det er en tilkendegivelse af solidaritet og noget, som staterne selv har anmodet om, og jeg mener, det er noget, som vi i dag bør være i stand til at høre om gennem Dem, hr. formand.
ANDRIESSEN, Vice-President of the Commission. — (NL) Mr President, it sometimes seems as if it is easier to put perestroika into effect outside the Soviet Union than inside the Soviet Union.
Hvad er der sket i Det Udvidede Præsidium med hensyn til at lade Parlamentets beslutning træde i kraft? Vi behøver førstehåndsoplysninger.
I say that with good reason seeing that, despite all the doubts we have at the moment about what is happening in the Soviet Union, we cannot deny to Gorbachev and various others the credit for having made these developments possible in Central and Eastern Europe.
Vi skal være der, og ved at være der skal vi sende et signal til de sovjetiske myndigheder om, at vi ikke er ligegyldige over for deres adfærd i de baltiske stater.
That remains a great historical merit and I believe that — even if we deem it necessary to criticise what is happening in the Soviet Union, and I am doing that here this evening with many others — we ought to bear in mind this historical fact.
Cox (LDR). — (EN) Hr. formand, på egne og min gruppes vegne vil jeg gerne begynde med at byde udenrigsministeren fra Litauen velkommen her i dag, og det glæder mig overordentlig meget at se, at han er i stand til at være her under denne forhandling.
One is a reply from the Soviet Union tó suspend a meeting of the Troika between the Soviet Union and the Eurpean Community planned for May of this year.
Det glædede mig overordentlig meget at høre balancen i kommissær Andriessens kommentarer med hensyn til hjælpen til Sovjetunionen, hvoraf noget fortsætter som nødhjælp, hvoraf han tøver med noget, og hvoraf gennemførelsen af noget af det er stillet i bero.
The other is a written reaction from the prime minister of the Soviet Union to the President of the Commission regretting the decisions taken.