Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-12-Speech-4-026"

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dcterms:Date	"2004-02-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Afghanistan2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040212.1.4-026"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-02-12-Speech-4-0272
lpv:speaker	lp:Lennart Sacrédeus2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kristdemokraterna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I wish to thank the rapporteur, Mr Brie for a very well written and important description of the position in Afghanistan and of what we should do to improve it. I have four points I wish to make to Parliament and to Commissioner Patten. The first concerns drugs. While the international community works to prevent drug abuse, Afghanistan’s illegal opium production discourages individual governments in the surrounding area from contributing financially to the reconstruction of the country. According to an investigation by the UN body for drugs control and crime prevention, Afghanistan was responsible in 2003 for three quarters or 75% of the world’s total production of illegal opium. That is, to say the least, deeply worrying. The second point concerns the position of women. The antidemocratic and Islamicist Taliban regime was guilty during its time in power of the most deliberate violation of women’s rights in modern times. The regime introduced a gender apartheid that totally denied women’s identity. The Taliban regime is now gone but, in very many respects, its view of women still prevails in Afghanistan. The country’s authorities, the international community and the EU must therefore make every possible effort to change this view. The third point concerns freedom of religion. Afghanistan’s first constitution following the fall of the Taliban dictatorship is cause for concern, given certain wordings about the dominant role of Islamic law, about restrictions upon certain human rights and individual freedoms and about restrictions upon women’s rights. The last point concerns the education system. We in the European Parliament want to see an open education system as an alternative to the madrasas or the Koran schools that operate as strongholds of Muslim extremism and of a culture of hatred in which Taliban militants are recruited."@en1

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