Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-05-11-Speech-3-144"
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"Mr President, I believe that a peaceful and prosperous Europe must be based on the respect for human rights. For this reason, I cannot vote for Mr Brok’s resolution. A number of its assertions would create a legal basis for the violation of human rights and lead to huge injustices in my country, Latvia, as well as in neighbouring Estonia.
The motion for a resolution states that the countries of Eastern Europe were under Soviet occupation for many decades. In the case of Latvia and Estonia, such an approach would have dangerous consequences for the more than half a million people who settled there during those decades. Mr Toomas Ilves from Estonia recently explained in the
what this assertion would mean: ‘hence, the protection of minorities in the Baltic states will become senseless’. Moreover, two weeks ago, the Latvian Parliament approved further consideration of the declaration asking the European Parliament for exemption from the obligation to accept foreign citizens and their descendants who were moved to Latvia during the time of occupation.
My father was a naval officer in the Soviet army and participated in the defeat of Hitler’s army and of his local allies, Arājs, Cukurs and others, responsible for the liquidation of 80 000 Latvian Jews, including my father’s grandparents. Moreover, my father was thrown out of the army, in accordance with Stalin’s orders, for being Jewish. I will never accept that my father was an occupier, nor will I ever agree that my mother, a Russian Orthodox, who came to Riga from St Petersburg in 1950, should be subject to repatriation, as the draft Latvian declaration says. The assertion made in this European Parliament resolution will encourage Latvian law-makers to accept this declaration in the very near future. I do not want the Baltic states to become a second Balkans. We parliamentarians are fully responsible for the words we are saying."@en1
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