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"Mr President, I too wish to thank Mrs Smet for a very solid piece of work. What is nice about our committee – the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities – is that we can often agree from right to left. I agree with a lot of what previous speakers have said. I nonetheless wish to point out to Mrs Dybkjær that the view that the European Union should become a very strong military power is not shared by everyone present in this Assembly. That is not, however, something that we should debate here and now.
It was interesting to hear you, Commissioner Patten, say that, as long as 20 years ago, you appreciated the need to promote women’s rights as universal human rights. The problem is that not everyone in your position – or in lower positions, for that matter – has arrived at that insight. That is partly why we are standing here today with a report such as this to discuss.
Mrs Smet also addresses the internal criticism in our Member States, which makes its presence felt indirectly. Mrs Valenciano Martínez-Orozco talked a lot about the asylum procedure. I could also talk for hours about the way in which, above all, the deportation of asylum seekers – when they have had their requests rejected and are to be kicked out of our Member States – contravenes everything that goes under the name of the dignified treatment of human beings.
I should like to hear more about the subject addressed by Mrs Smet in paragraph 17 concerning women’s participation in the agreement process. We have recently had experience of this in our committee, both where Afghan and Iraqi women are concerned. Almost nothing at all has been done about their participation, in spite of the fact that we have all said it is an important matter. I should also very much like to hear Commissioner Patten’s comments on paragraph 19, to the effect that the Commission should address these issues in all the relevant forums, such as G8 meetings and WTO rounds."@en1
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