For these reasons EAJ-PNV deems it necessary to issue the following statements:

One.- We believe that the political processes under way must lead, avoiding a political vacuum and the resulting social chaos, to peaceful and orderly democratic transitions to re-establish social peace and the stability of the economic systems of these countries. These transitions must culminate in constitutional changes laying the foundations for the establishment of stable democratic regimes which will carry out the will of the people expressed in free, democratic and inclusive elections, always respecting the right to self-determination of the nations of Africa and the Middle East. In this sense our commitment is to the formation of strong civil societies which, respecting the cultural spheres and parameters of North African citizens and nations and their identities, assume and foster the values of liberty and justice within the framework of unlimited respect for universal human rights, which the constitutional changes must unambiguously guarantee.

Two.- We denounce the untimely and lukewarm European responses to the events taking place in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and other Arab nations. In this sense we lament that the search for unanimity amongst the 27, in the sphere of European foreign policy, obstructs the construction of a common exterior service and makes patent, once more, Europe's political irrelevance in the international power game. We reproach the vacillation and lack of determination shown by the European Union in the face of attacks on the civil population and breach of human rights carried out by the satraps of North Africa and the Middle East. We believe that foreign policy should never assume the priority of geo-strategic and economic interests, no matter how important, over the freedom of individuals and peoples.

Three.- We urge the European Union to order the urgent diplomatic deployment of the European Exterior Action Service in the countries of the region in order to be provided with a common representation instrument enabling tracking and analysis of the events under way and, in turn, to activate mechanisms of response to and support of the democratisation processes.

Four.- We propose reactivation of the organisation of the Union for the Mediterranean, the institution inspired by the 1995 Barcelona Process and made up of countries on both shores of the Mediterranean, which is committed to the economic and human development of countries of the southern coast and the approximation of all countries bounding the Mare Nostrum, through the undertaking of common projects of all kinds with the aim of reducing current inequalities. In this sense we consider the preparation of a common strategy to approve an International Support Plan for said North African countries to be of the maximum urgency, with the aim of restoring and strengthening their economic and social structure, their educational and economic development for promotion of training and the insertion of young people into the workplace and the strengthening and grounding of democracy and stability in the region.

Five.- We applaud the measures and sanctions adopted unanimously by the United Nations Security Council against the regime of Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi for continuous violation of human rights and his remittal to the International Criminal Court, and we appeal to the international community and the organisms of the international human rights protection system to maintain vigilance, especially, to the development of events in Libya.

Six.- We believe that, in this context of democratic aperture in these countries, the international community must support settlement of the conflict in Western Sahara in accordance with international legislation and the resolutions issued by the United Nations.