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lpv:speaker	lp:Simon Busuttil2
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lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Tunisia is one of our partner countries in the Barcelona Process, and thus there should be interest, from both sides and not only from ours, in order to ensure that the commitments made in this process are observed, including those regarding the respect for human rights. Yet, Mr President, we also need to be cautious, without jumping to any hurried conclusions. This is the third time in around six months that this Parliament is discussing the resolution on human rights in Tunisia. This is out of tune with what we say and also with what we do not say about other countries, including some of our partner countries in the Mediterranean where the human rights situation is certainly no better than that of Tunisia. To be clear, I consider that Tunisia has a great deal more to be done in this field. On our part, however, we also need to send a message to Tunisia which is just, balanced, coherent, and treat all countries in the same way. After all, we are speaking of a country which has already made a degree of progress, as Minister Winkler mentioned in his intervention. We are talking about a country which has just been elected into the Human Rights Council of the United Nations. This is a country which has also just took over the Presidency of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly. Mr President, I do not know how coherent we are being by insisting on maintaining the Congress of the Tunisian League for Human Rights when we know that there is an order from the Tunisian Court for this Congress not to take place. What are we expecting: that the order of the Court be challenged or ignored? Would it then not be better, rather than condemning, to solicit dialogue between all parties involved? Would it not also be better to ask the Tunisian authorities to participate as well in order for a solution to be found? Undoubtedly, it is important for this Congress to be held, yet we know that there is a blockage due to this Court order, and we need the commitment of all parties in order for this impasse to be unblocked. Even with regards to the law on the superior institute of lawyers which has just been passed, what exactly are we saying? Are we saying that there has been a breach of human rights because no consultation was made on this law before it was passed? Because if this is what we are saying, then we should admit that there is a large number of Member States of the European Union itself which are also breaching human rights due to lack of consultation. To conclude, Mr President, I repeat that I wish to see a Tunisia which safeguards human rights a lot, lot more, but I also want to see that we send this message in a constructive manner."@en1

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