Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-15-Speech-3-184"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in East Timor (continued)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990915.11.3-184"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-15-Speech-3-1852
lpv:speaker	lp:Mary Elizabeth Banotti2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, you will note by the number of Irish people wishing to speak in the debate today that this is an issue very close to our hearts. For many years Mr Tom Hyland, an Irishman who has made this the cause of his life, has led international demands for action on East Timor. In Ireland we care very deeply about East Timor and we have been extremely active; as the President-in-Office noted this morning, our Foreign Minister, Mr David Andrews, was the special EU Overseer of the recent elections in East Timor. But in the context of the current disaster there, Indonesia has become a symbol of the lengths to which a brutal, weak and unscrupulous regime will go to further its power and control over those it perceives as challenging its authority. Unfortunately this government has had many friends in this Parliament over the years and many EU governments have put the profits of their arms industries above those of the basic human rights of the unfortunate people of East Timor. Events of the past month have graphically illustrated what many have sought to highlight over the years about the reality of life in East Timor. The President-in-Office spoke very passionately this morning about her concerns but, as Mr De Rossa has rightly pointed out, these concerns were no surprise to a great many of us. Perhaps it is because East Timor is very far away and a very small country, that the crucial issues at stake in this dreadful catastrophe engulfing the country at the moment have been of little concern either to ourselves within the EU or, of course, to the United States. What we have seen is a brutal regime taking a terrible revenge on a small country that dared to say it wanted to be independent and we must support it."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 quaestor; European Parliament (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--1999-10-11)3 substitute; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Quaestors (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Fine Gael Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 quaestor; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Banotti (PPE )."1

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