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"Mr President, I shall begin by reading a very short extract from the document that we were given today in the delegation to Central America, and I say ‘read it’, because I do not want anyone to believe that I am giving it my own interpretation. The interventions I have heard so far strike me as somewhat lacking in balance.
I shall read the words of the non-governmental human rights organisation ‘Human Rights Watch’: “The human rights situation clearly deteriorated in the course of last year. In the first ten months of the year, the office of the Public Advocate recorded 92 massacres, which they defined as the killing of three or more people at the same place and at the same time. Most were linked to paramilitary groups, followed by guerrillas. The national epidemic of kidnappings, half of which were committed by guerrillas, gave no signs of abating.”
The report also states that two million Colombians have been displaced and that this year, more people than ever before – 300 000 – have been displaced. It also states that human rights workers, trade unionists, journalists, government investigators and community leaders continue to be murdered because of their work.
Mr President, we will be voting on a resolution today. I prefer the resolution we voted for last year, which I felt was more balanced, because it noted and clearly condemned the ongoing fumigation of crops and the fact that alternative crops were not being promoted to prevent human disease and the constant attacks on biodiversity.
Last year’s resolution also stated that the European Union should adopt a different, non-militaristic position, which supports the defence of human rights, dialogue and peace. We repeat this demand today and I agree with my fellow Members that this should be done. This resolution also condemned the fact that, since 60% of Colombians live on less than one dollar per day, it is very hard to achieve dialogue, agreements, or peace. This is why, Mr President, I felt that some balance needed to be added to the previous interventions, although I agree with what most of my fellow Members have to say. But it was necessary to mention other parties involved in the war in Colombia, who exert an enormous influence in the absence of peace."@en1
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