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"Mr President, I would like to make a few remarks on dual standards and practices in the European Union institutions. EU standards mean the erosion of standards as principles. In many important cases it is difficult to conclude what has higher priority in our spectrum of common values: real respect for human rights or cheaper gas, gas that is likely to erode our principles and, in the end, Europe.
To the repeated remarks of my colleagues that Russia is very important, my response is: yes, but the truth is more important. I am not going to criticise the great work done by Mr Coveney. I congratulate him. I am only concerned that the common mood of erosion has given rise to gaps or appeasing manoeuvres in so many of our documents. There is often a conscious or subconscious concern not to be too explicit, not to be too hard, not to irritate people even if they are wrong.
Is anybody here concerned about the 40 000 Chechen children killed during the Russian military operation? Do colleagues appreciate the barbaric humiliation inflicted on the body of the assassinated legitimate president? We do not dare to state simple facts: that Russia is not yet a country of shared values, that it is a country whose government allows unfair business practices in its desire to join the WTO.
For many of us, the priority of peace in the Caucasus became a principle indirectly promoted by Russian diplomacy: the integrity of the cemetery. We are in favour of it not giving any chance for the candidates for the cemetery to avoid such an enforced happy end."@en1
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