Strasbourg, 11/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - During their traditional press conferences, the presidents of the EP political groups were mainly asked, on Tuesday, about the reasons why the Parliament chose to hold a debate on Iraq but without voting a resolution, at such a crucial time. From British Liberal Democrat Graham Watson to Spanish Socialist Enrique Baron, including German Christian Democrat Hans-Gert Pöttering, they all explained that no new element warrants the adoption of a new resolution, different to that adopted in January this year. Only the Greens/EFA hoped for a resolution so that the Parliament could call on the European members of the Security Council to vote against any resolution that would make military intervention in Iraq legitimate, Daniel Cohn-Bendit pointed out. He felt that the attitude of two of these States is in contradiction with the position adopted by the recent extraordinary summit given that Article 19 of the Treaty provides for European representatives at the Security Council to defend the EU's position. "The Americans are modern adepts of Maoism", the joint president of the Greens Group said, stating that they have made it their code that "power is at the end of a rifle". "They seek to impose their vision of things", Mr Cohn-Bendit added, taking a stance for support of democratisation in the region, which is necessarily through Iran: "The key to democratisation of the region, is Iran (…). This is the only society in the region which is massively fighting for democracy. Helping Iranians to free themselves of theological totalitarianism would be to promote an example of democratisation in the region and allow the birth of a political force that would entail continued democratisation". Mr Watson noted that the report by Mr Blix does not make it possible to engage in immediate military action. He gave his group's support to the position defended by France. While recalling the unchanged position of his group, Mr Pöttering said it was necessary to "criticise the Americans less". He went on to explain that the problem does not come from the excessive presence of the United States but from the fact that Europe is not sufficiently present on the international scene. Mr Baron insisted on the need to comply with the Treaty and with the "duty of loyalty" that it imposes on Member States. He reproached the United Kingdom and Spain for supporting a resolution that runs counter to the position adopted by the Fifteen during the Summit on 17 February.