Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-04-27-Speech-3-030"
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"Mr President, given the importance of this report to Parliament’s credibility, I should like to make three comments:
Firstly, charity begins at home, and in the countries that will one day be part of that home. It is therefore wrong that countries applying to join the EU should be exempt from the assessment. The Kurds and the Turkish democrats do not welcome that exemption.
Secondly, the spectre of double standards looms large over the report. For example, the report rightly welcomes progress made in Morocco, yet omits the fact that journalists can still be put in prison for referring to the Sahrawi people in Tindouf as refugees and not as hostages.
My third and last point concerns terrorism. I welcome the fact that the report cites hunger and poverty as contributory factors to terrorism and that the fight against terrorism has often eroded the very values that could actually defeat it. The rest, however, remains unsaid. There is not a single word on ongoing military and colonial occupations and the way in which they result in violence against innocent people. Can there be any doubt that Israel’s pursuit of both the fence and the settlements mortgages any lasting solution for peace and human rights in the region, or that the result of the notion of pre-emptive war is, tragically, there for all to see in Iraq?
This is why I shall be abstaining tomorrow, despite the fact that this report raises a number of important points. We have a duty to do more and do better."@en1
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