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"Mr President, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the UNHCR is a way of paying our respects to the men and women who offer non-partisan help to freedom fighters throughout the world under what are often very difficult circumstances. If we want to help them even more, we should call on the Community institutions to increase the financial, human and material resources of the UNHCR.
However, I deplore the way in which several countries, including certain Member States, have attacked the 1951 Geneva Convention. Must we remind them that 50 Roma families from Hungary, having had their village ransacked, have been waiting here in Strasbourg for a decision on their application for asylum since July?
We must also bear in mind the fact that southern countries and poor countries are getting poorer, thereby paving the way for repressive regimes followed by waves of refugees, and the fact that governments no longer have a monopoly on persecution. That is why we should also grant asylum, for example, to women who are the victims of sexual mutilation or sexual violence and all the men and women who are the victims of tribal or ethnic violence, as in Algeria or Afghanistan.
Allow me to finish by saying more generally, Mr President, that the European Union should promote asylum and immigration policies which respect human rights."@en1
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