The fact that an agreement falls outside the safe harbour described in point (157) does not imply that the agreement is caught by Article 101(1) of the Treaty and, if so, that the conditions of Article 101(3) are not satisfied.

A. whereas three years into the Syrian conflict, the dramatic human rights, humanitarian and security situation continues to deteriorate; whereas Syrian Government troops continue to use brutal force against civilian populations; whereas, to a lesser extent, violations of human rights and humanitarian law by opposition forces are also being reported; whereas religious extremism and sectarian violence are on the increase, and radical Islamist groups, including EU nationals, are now reported to have reached significant numbers; whereas the military confrontation appears to have reached a stalemate whereby no warring party seems to be a ...[+++]bout to collapse or capitulate;

One other reason for the coup was that the Malian army operating in the north felt that it didn't have the equipment and the resources to take on the rebels and the AQIM. When there was, in mid-January, a massacre in a place called Aguelhok of military and police, and ATT continued to put forth his position that a resolution of the difficulties and of the situation with the Tuareg had to be a political resolution, I think the military took offence and didn't feel that his government was being sympathetic to their own situation.

I do not wish to be wise after the event or to confront either the Commission or the Council but, before the Gothenburg Summit last year, we in the European Parliament said, ‘Make sure that external relations are included when we devise a sustainability strategy’, ‘Make sure that, when we adopt our own sustainability strategy, Johannesburg is a natural part of this’ and ‘Do not delay’.