Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-05-18-Speech-4-173"
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"Mr President, I need no lessons in politics from MEPs who have been reported as singing a Horst Wessel song in the past.
I have three points to make. Firstly, this resolution is an abuse of our Rules of Procedure. Rule 115 is not intended to be used in this way. If it were, I would have attempted to raise the issue of the sadly mismanaged primary healthcare trust in west Gloucestershire closing two out of two local hospitals in Lydney and Cinderford. We all know what this is about: it is an attempt to undermine by creeping resolution our one-China policy – a perfectly reasonable political position, which I do not happen to support. Let us have an honest debate about it rather than hide within the Trojan Horse of supposed healthcare issues. The resolution is a serious one: it is true that Parliament has previously supported Taiwanese observer status at the WHA – not the WHO.
Secondly, the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network comprises a series of 40 different institutions from amongst the almost 200 Member States of the WHO. There is no universality, so there is no Taiwan gap. In fact, a number of NGOs with Taiwanese membership are members of GOARN and, therefore, they have no shortage of information.
Thirdly, given the quarter to half a million Taiwanese immigrants in Shanghai alone who regularly travel between China and Taiwan, it is hard to imagine that the Chinese would take any risks of them bringing in diseases from Taiwan."@en1
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