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"Mr President, I too wish to express my group's appreciation of the valuable work done by the UNHCR, both on the ground and in policy terms.
There is a desperate need for a body that defends the individual right to asylum and actually looks for best practice in terms of treatment for refugees, not the lowest common denominator and policies of deterrence, which some Member States and political parties seem determined to follow.
There are arguments for including the UNHCR in the formal policy process of the Union to make the best possible use of their advice and experience. As others have said, we also need to ensure adequate funding for this organisation. Our own contributions have fallen in recent times as have those of our Member States and yet, as others have said, the need grows. Anyone who was at the recent exhibition in the European Parliament and who studied the pictures and the script dealing with the work of the UNHCR in the world at the moment I think would agree that it is one of the saddest exhibitions that we have ever had the misfortune to see in our Parliament."@en1
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