Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-09-Speech-1-095"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-02-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly in 20032
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040209.6.1-095"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-02-09-Speech-1-0962
lpv:speaker	lp:Maj Britt Theorin2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialdemokratiska arbetarepartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; 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 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, allow me firstly to say that the report is constructive and provides a correct description of the work in the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. The work has acquired a better structure with the three committees, something that has improved the preparatory work prior to the plenary. Question time has also improved. It may of course be further improved if the answers to the questions reach MEPs in good time, so that the Commission does not merely read out the answers but provides scope for debate. I personally should like to emphasise the constructive cooperation between the ACP-EU Assembly and the UN when it comes both to child soldiers and children’s vulnerability in war and to the debate concerning the International Criminal Court. These are two major and important political issues of precisely the kind that our Assembly should engage with, for they are about finding sound forms of cooperation in which both sides learn from each other and support the policy we consider to be important in the international arena. The United States has removed its financial support from those countries that do not back the US’s demands that all Americans in general must be exempted from being brought before the International Criminal Court for serious war crimes. This measure can and must be supported both politically and financially by the ACP-EU, especially by the EU. It is gratifying to note that, of the Latin American and West Indian countries, it is only Belize that has given in to the US’s action and, of the African countries, only Nigeria, whose President ratified an agreement with the United States that was contrary to the Nigerian constitution and in defiance of the Nigerian Parliament. It is gratifying that most other countries have resisted the pressure from the United States. The ACP-EU Assembly plays an important political and economic role in major, crucial issues in the international arena."@en1

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