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"Mr President, on Mrs Lynne's report, the European Union can present a great model to the rest of the world, in particular with regard to how best we treat those who are most vulnerable within our society.
Across the world today there are an estimated 600 million people with disabilities. A lot of those people come from deprived backgrounds and a lot of them are resident in the developing world where many of the services that we take for granted are not available. It is essential, therefore, that there are international rules and regulations with regard to the treatment, respect and promotion of people with disabilities.
One of the most important elements of our work here today, and the vote in favour of the Lynne report, has been that it sends out a clear message, not just from the 15 countries of the European Union but also from the 10 accession countries, that we want to establish common standards and rules.
I leave you with a short quotation by George Bernard Shaw, the Irish author, that I used on my first day in this Chamber: 'The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.' In today's world we have too much indifference towards the plight of those who are most in need of our support – not our sympathy, not our charity, not our patronising – to allow them to live full and independent lives and to be treated as equals in the 21st Century."@en1
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