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"In speaking with regard to the issue of people with disabilities in Europe, we should always start with the premise that this issue is firstly and foremost a civil and human rights issue.
We have a duty not just to pontificate about rights, but to actively encourage access to education, training, employment and opportunity.
We can go back over previous resolutions and reports from this house concerning people with disabilities.
However, the same basic barriers and problems still exist. Some Member States and some NGOs have valiantly brought forward innovative initiatives to remove the barriers and obstacles to equal opportunity for all. However, some still see this as a specific sector rather than as a reflection of our society’s failure to give opportunity for all. At the dawn of the 21st century, we should send a message to the world that the EU recognises the ability in all, the right to equal treatment and equal access to opportunity.
In supporting this report, I commend to members the points concerning the role of organisations dealing with disabilities and other NGOs who have been powerful advocates on their behalf, and who have listened to the voices of the people and who grasp the opportunity to change the world for the better for all of us.
We should work towards ensuring that by 2003, which is the European Year for disabled persons, we have guaranteed that the majority of those barriers have been removed."@en1
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