Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-04-06-Speech-4-162"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-04-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Iraq: Assyrian community, situation in prisons in Iraq (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060406.26.4-162"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-04-06-Speech-4-1632
lpv:speaker	lp:Glyn Ford2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, speaking on behalf of the PSE Group I should like to say that we are all aware of the awful situation in Iraq’s prisons. We all know about what happened in Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. We very much support the resolution demanding the establishment of detention conditions that conform with international standards. We will be voting in favour of the amendment that asks for the names to be revealed of those people who are held in prison and that they be allowed family visits. We also urge the Iraqi Parliament to ratify the Convention against Torture. I mainly want to speak on the issue of the Assyrians. As someone who supports and is supported by the ‘Save the Assyrian Campaign’, whose Honorary President is Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, I am well aware of the forgotten people of Iraq. We hear talk about the Sunni, the Shia and the Kurds, but who has been talking about the 800 000 Assyrians that live in Iraq? They make up 8% of the population, which would be considerably larger if it had not been for the fact that, because of persecution, many have fled to Jordan and Syria, where they live in terrible conditions. We urge the Iraqi authorities to condemn all acts of violence against the Assyrians, the Chaldeans, the Syriacs and other Christian minorities in Iraq. We urge the Iraqi authorities and the multinational force to find the perpetrators of the crimes against them, to facilitate the return and resettlement of the Assyrians in secure environments where their customs and way of life are respected, and urge the Constitutional Committee of the Iraqi Council of Representatives to preserve the cultural and religious rights of all Iraqi communities in its proposals for constitutional amendments."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; SEDE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Japan (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Labour and the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (2004-11-08--2009-07-13)3 member; INTA (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Glyn Ford (PSE ),"1 "author."1

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