Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-11-Speech-4-151"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-04-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020411.8.4-151"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-11-Speech-4-1522
lpv:speaker	lp:Laura González Álvarez2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PETI (2002-01-17--2003-07-07)3 substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2003-07-07)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2003-07-07)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico (2002-02-07--2003-07-07)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2003-07-07)3 unknown; Izquierda Unida (1999-07-20--2003-07-07)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2003-07-07)3
lpv:translated text	"Commissioner, I must confess that I have found this week quite tiring, because of all these evenings we have spent discussing the lack of respect for human rights. I am not talking about being tired of having to deal with this subject, but about being tired at the lack of results, despite constant pressure from this Parliament. Many hopes were raised when the Guatemala and El Salvador agreements were signed in 1996. We have been talking about the need for dialogue in Colombia. The problem, and the issue that we must deal with here in Parliament today, is that these agreements have not been honoured, and it is this factor that is frustrating the hopes of the majority of the population in places such as Guatemala, where, as Mr Nogueira rightly stated – a large proportion of the population is indigenous. I believe that the best way of remembering Monsignor Gerardi, the author and person responsible for this extraordinary document of historical clarification, which should today be the guide for the majority of Guatemalan judges talking about crimes committed during the civil war, is to demand that agreements be honoured, for there to be true agrarian reform, which has not taken place to date, for there to be respect for the large majority of the Guatemalan people – a respect that currently does not exist, because these people continue to live in abject poverty – for there to be an end to the increasing violence against the people and their representatives, defenders of human rights, farm-workers’ representatives, trade unionists, religious leaders and people involved with the rights of the majority of the population. Unfortunately, until now the majority of human rights have not been respected in Guatemala. For this reason, I believe that what we should be calling for is for the European Union, with all of its available resources, to use its influence so that these agreements, to which it contributed so much, are honoured."@en1

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