Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-10-Speech-3-172"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-04-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU strategy towards China (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020410.5.3-172"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-10-Speech-3-1732
lpv:speaker	lp:Nelly Maes2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; G/EFA (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 unknown; België Spirit (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I can tell the Liberals that they will not be alone in this fight. China has decided to join the World Trade Organisation. This means that China has made a conscious choice in favour of openness, and this will not only be in the area of trade. China will, as a result, go through major changes that will have a huge impact on society. We will conduct that dialogue with that enormous country and we will need to build that dialogue not only on economic interests, but we will, through our electorate, through our values, through our institutions, founded on democracy and human rights, be forced to put this dialogue on an ethical footing, and it is useful to spell this out to the Chinese authorities from the outset. We heard about the large-scale repression of Catholics and Muslims earlier on. Without being familiar with any of the intricacies myself, I should like to warn against the large-scale repression of those who practise Falun Gong. They are a peace-loving people who are thrown into prison in their thousands. We have received blood-curdling accounts and testimonies on this score. Human rights and international law are at the moment clearly the weak point; democracy will gradually take root in Chinese society and find its own way. And the Chinese Government should not react to this with large-scale repression. I should also like to mention the increasing concern we have in this Parliament for Tibet and for other regions in that giant country which are asking for a certain level of autonomy and which want to be able to go their own way, culturally speaking. To respond to this simply with repression is criminal and, in my view, all those who in the near future have contact with the Chinese authorities should make it clear to them that we and our communities are not only concerned about money matters."@en1

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