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"Madam President, the resolution now being debated is gaining wide support here in Parliament, just as it should. In the area of human dignity and fundamental human rights we, as European politicians, have an opportunity and an obligation to defend these principles still more vehemently.
This resolution, as has been said, is a good indication of how we can bring committee business to plenary level. The Subcommittee on Human Rights heard how there is real concern about the non-implementation of human rights in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Perhaps with regard to Cambodia, there was formerly the desire to give the country time to normalise and recover from the Khmer Rouge era, but the time limit is now fast approaching. When even the oppressed continue with the oppression, the rest of the world has to intervene in the issue of human rights. This inevitably means that we must consider imposing conditions to put pressure on governments. News, for example, of the detention of opposition politicians and reporters does not suggest that things are going the right way.
The international community needs to pay very special attention to the status of women. It is a priority to promote the rights of groups that are all too easily discriminated against, such as women, children, and more especially girls, minorities, aboriginal peoples and the disabled, and it is excellent that the resolution should have focused attention on this.
We do not even have precise knowledge concerning the situation in Laos, as foreign human rights organisations are not allowed into the country. We do know, however, that we can hardly say that fundamental rights have been implemented there.
As Parliament is now giving its broad political support to the resolution, whilst at the same time pointing out the existence of earlier resolutions, we will obviously monitor developments in these countries closely, and if the situation does not improve we will certainly return to this issue."@en1
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