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"en.20021021.5.1-062"2
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"Mr President, I am very pleased that it is you who are in the Chair, for this afternoon I received a telephone call from a young woman. She was the winner of the Miss Denmark contest. She has decided – very courageously, I think – not to go to Nigeria to take part in the Miss World contest. Today, she has, however, received a letter from the Miss World organisation, encouraging her to take part in the light of the fact that one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament – and it was in actual fact yourself, Mr Imbeni – had encouraged the candidates to take part and so abstain from a boycott. This young woman we are talking about is naturally rather confused, which is understandable of course. I therefore want to ask you to confirm today, or to confirm to myself as soon as possible, that the European Parliament has not come out in favour of the candidates’ participating in the Miss World contest and to confirm that we have not therefore encouraged them to participate. I should also like to ask you to confirm that the closest the European Parliament has been to discussing whether these women should boycott the Miss World contest has been the discussion we had in the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities when women were specifically called upon to boycott the Miss World contest. I hope that I can obtain confirmation now and, if not now, then in writing in the very near future."@en1
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