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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to express my appreciation of the full and accurate report. I nevertheless seem to detect a kind of reverence and a respectful distance – which I also felt during the speeches given by the Commission and the Council – when certain powerful quarters are named, when it is they who are responsible for the failure to uphold human rights. In particular, with reference to Iraq, injustices and violence must be condemned with equal force whatever their origin, whether terrorists or the occupying Anglo-American forces are involved. If prison conditions really were the measure of a society’s level of civilisation, then the West would be in a terrible state in view of situations such as Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.
In this case it is not enough to ask the United States to clarify the situation. Here there is nothing to clarify but we have a political and moral duty to voice a firm condemnation. I also believe that in Afghanistan too, infringements of human rights should be condemned, including when they are carried out by international forces. Moreover, the United States should be called on to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The law must be equal for all and no one must have any kind of international immunity.
We recently voted to start negotiations with Turkey, and thereby contracted a debt which we must honour: namely, to continue monitoring, day after day, how the situation develops – not just in the legislative field but also in everyday policy – with regard to respect for human rights, in particular those of the Kurdish population, political recognition and a commitment to finding a solution to this conflict, and also recognition of the Republic of Cyprus and withdrawal of troops from the northern part of the island. These issues must be explicitly set out in the report.
Human rights must also be interpreted in a broader sense: we cannot only condemn violence and the death penalty when individuals are concerned, while overlooking entire political decisions that condemn millions of people to death. I refer to the liberalist economic and financial policies which force, for example, 800 million people to live on less than a dollar a day and deny tens of millions of people access to treatment for AIDS.
In the Amazon, where 20% of the entire planet’s freshwater flows every day, tens of thousands of people in Manaus have no access to drinking water because the service has been privatised. That is an example of how our model of development violates the most important human right, that is, the right to existence."@en1
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