Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-01-Speech-3-100"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-02-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Cuba2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060201.13.3-100"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-02-01-Speech-3-1012
lpv:speaker	lp:Raimon Obiols2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2004-09-21--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; DROI (2004-09-13--2007-01-14)3 chair; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President-in-Office of the Council, our group is pleased that the context in which this debate on Cuba is taking place is likely to ensure a broad consensus for a motion for a resolution. We have always believed that in this Parliament and in the Union’s institutions there is a broad basis for agreement and for moving relations with Cuba in the right direction. As a group, our position is very clear: firstly, in the current context, we can only confirm that the Cuban authorities have not sent out the hoped-for signals with regard to improving human rights in the country. Secondly, we are not finding it possible to present the Sakharov Prize to the Women in White and we must therefore urge the Cuban authorities to allow this group to visit Europe in response to the European Parliament’s invitation. At the same time, I believe that we must call upon the President of Parliament to do everything in his power to ensure that the Prize is properly presented. Nevertheless, our view is that, in the current climate of relations, the prospects for progress are better now than under the Council’s previous policy, which led us up a blind alley, as did, to say the least, the policy which for decades insisted on sanctions and an embargo. We believe that the Council's current policy should be maintained, with two objectives: firstly, to continue to call strongly for human rights to be respected in Cuba, the release of prisoners of conscience and of the peaceful opposition and respect for democratic freedoms and, secondly, to maintain and increase relations and dialogue with all of the political and social sectors in Cuba that are involved or interested in relations with Europe and the development of the country and the inevitable changes that we are going to see in Cuba in the near future."@en1

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