Le modifier, mais certainement p
as l'abolir ; il y aurait certes des raisons d
e l'abolir, comme l'a dit mon collègue, M. Salafranca, mais abolir aujourd'hui les sanctions reviendrait à procl
amer le triomphe de Saddam Hussein dans son pays et dans le monde arabe, et l'élever au statut de
vainqueur de cette guerre psychologique, alor ...[+++]s que la situation est actuellement délicate dans la guerre entre Israël et les Palestiniens, et rendre ainsi sa dictature plus durable et plus cruelle encore.
Changing, but certainly not abolishing; there are also reasons for abolishing it, according to Mr Salafranca, but abolishing the sanctions against Saddam Hussein today would mean declaring him the winner in his own country and throughout the Arab world and holding him up as the victor in this psychological war, just at this sensitive time in the war between Israel and the Palestinians, and this would make his dictatorship even more permanent and even more brutal.