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"Mr President, I agree with the case made in the resolution that global terrorism represents a threat, especially terrorism directed against democratic societies, but that we cannot fight terrorism using terrorist tactics. Such actions will not be tolerated and we have a right to state this fact. We have this right because Europe is the cradle of humanitarian rights, because the first conventions on the protection of the rights of prisoners, the civilian population, and war victims were drawn up here in Europe at the start of the 20th century. After the Second World War, we developed these humanitarian principles. In Europe, we have a European, Strasbourg system for protecting human rights and finally we, in the European Union, have a Charter of Fundamental Rights which will be, and indeed already is, part of the European Constitution. All of these documents state clearly and unequivocally that human dignity must be respected, that no human being should be humiliated, threatened or persecuted, that no one should be held without trial, and that everyone has the right to defence. I would like to ask: was all this forgotten in Guantanamo? Does no one want to remember it? Both our Amnesty International report and the UN report mention it clearly. We cannot accept such a situation and I therefore wholly support the theory put forward in the resolution. The latter states that the war on terrorism cannot involve any infringement of human rights."@en1

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