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"Mr President, the European Union can be proud of the fact that it places such a high premium on defending human rights throughout the world, and in fact this is one of its main calling cards. In days gone by, while we were still behind the Iron Curtain, we would listen eagerly to the voice of the free world. This voice reached us over the airwaves thanks to radio stations such as Radio Free Europe, the BBC, France International and the Voice of America, and it gave us hope that one day we would witness the dawning of freedom and civil liberties. In the same way, our wish now is for all those suffering persecution for their views or their religious beliefs, and all those held in bleak prisons by dictators under various pretexts, to hear that they have not been forgotten by this House, which lies at the very heart of Europe, and that we are demanding their release and an end to persecution.
I should like to thank the rapporteur for the work he has done. At the same time, however, there are a few comments I should like to make on the report. Paragraph 12 calls on Moldova and Ukraine to resolve the Transnistria issue, yet it is obvious that no final and complete solution will be found to the problems surrounding this self-proclaimed republic unless Russia is involved, as the latter is backing Transnistria.
A number of Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor have been in jail in Libya for five years following absurd accusations that they knowingly and intentionally infected 450 children in a Benghazi hospital with HIV. The Commission should demand the release of these prisoners, who have been sentenced to death and whose appeal is due to be heard in a month’s time. I should also like to call on the Commission to pay particular attention to the discrimination suffered by Christians and Christian churches in Muslim countries. Eritrea is the only country mentioned in the report as a place where Christians are persecuted, and no reference at all is made to their fate in Sudan.
I propose that the Commission should prepare a detailed report on the situation of Christian churches in the Middle East, Africa, China and Turkey."@en1
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