Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-05-17-Speech-3-007"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-05-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Adoption of the Minutes of the previous sitting2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000517.1.3-007"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-05-17-Speech-3-0082
lpv:speaker	lp:The Lord Nicholas Bethell2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would like to inform the House, under Rule 111, that last Thursday, the offices of the Moss Media Group in Moscow comprising independent television and a number of newspapers and magazines were raided by so-called tax police, uniformed and armed. Documents were taken away, the telephones were cut off and threats of legal action remain. Mr President, this matter is one of the utmost importance. It involves freedom of the press in Russia and further outrages are expected over the next two or three days. Mr Robin Cook is in Moscow today. He will discuss the matter with Mr Ivanov, the Russian Foreign Minister, and the 15 Ministers are thinking of a joint démarche. But we in the European Parliament – what are we doing? Nothing. The matter is, if you like, too urgent to take on board because it happened last Thursday and cannot be brought forward as an urgency. Could you please refer this question to the Conference of Presidents so that some system can be found to deal with very urgent and important matters such as this one?"@en1
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2003-09-29)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2003-09-29)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Bethel, the Lord (PPE-DE )."1

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