Press release 2006/007 – Tobias Pflüger, European deputy of the LEFT fraction in the European parliament

On the threats by the French national president Jacques Chirac to use nuclear weapons, the European deputy Tobias Pflüger, member of the foreign relations committee and coordinator of the Left Fraction in the sub-committee Security and Defence, declares:

The threats by the French state president Chirac are scandalous. His declaration to want to employ atomic weapons for “guaranteeing our strategic safety” is a direct threat to international security and world peace. Completely unacceptable, moreover, are Chirac’s threats against Iran. In connection to general threats with nuclear war, these statements play with the possibility of a nuclear war against Iran. Now the peace movement has to do all it can to prevent this calculated madness, which counts in many civilian victims.

The European Union as well, in the atomic dispute with Iran, should not escalate any further. A path into war following the pattern of Iraq must be prevented under any circumstances.

Strasbourg, January 19, 2006
Translated by Carla Krüger, January 19, 2006