Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-14-Speech-3-134"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-12-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presumed use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051214.14.3-134"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-12-14-Speech-3-1352
lpv:speaker	lp:Ryszard Czarnecki2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; SEDE (2004-07-21--2006-11-14)3 substitute; AFCO (2004-07-21--2006-11-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2004-10-13--2007-03-13)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Samoobrona RP (2004-07-20--2008-01-23)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2006-11-14)3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2006-11-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we say yes to a committee, but no to anti-American hysteria. That, in a nutshell, is our position on the appointment of a parliamentary body to investigate media reports of CIA prisons in Europe. This matter should be cleared up, but I would warn against using it as a convenient weapon in the fight against the nasty Americans. It is only right that we should stand up for human rights, but we should not throw the baby out with the bathwater. We should keep things in proportion, and make a distinction between regimes that base their very existence on brutal violations of human rights and countries in which human rights are only occasionally infringed. Commissioner Frattini is a very nice man, if perhaps a little overzealous, and I would very much like to believe him when he tells us that there have not been any prisons of this kind in Europe. I am afraid, however, that we should be listening to someone else’s words on the matter. I refer to the head of the CIA, who has not denied the reports of secret prisons on our continent. We are in favour of a committee being appointed, but we would not want such a committee to become a platform for anti-American rhetoric. One of the many reasons for this is that America has several faces. As I said yesterday, we must defend human rights and reject double standards. At the same time, however, universal values such as human rights must not be used as weapons in our political battles. We should bear this in mind when we appoint a committee."@en1

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