Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-01-17-Speech-3-105"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-01-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Imposition of the death penalty on medical personnel in Libya (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070117.7.3-105"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-01-17-Speech-3-1062
lpv:speaker	lp:Luisa Fernanda Rudi Ubeda2
lpv:spokenAs	member; IMCO (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3 unknown; Partido Popular (2004-07-20--2008-03-31)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-20--2007-03-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2008-03-31)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-11-14--2008-03-31)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2008-02-19)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2005-02-21--2008-03-31)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I would like to begin by congratulating you on your election as Vice-President and on having obtained the highest number of votes in yesterday's election. We in this Parliament are once again discussing the case of the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya. I would like firstly to express the solidarity of the whole of Parliament with the child patients – some of whom have now died – and with their families. At the same time, however, I would also like to make a strong statement in defence of our principles and against the death penalty. In the countries of Europe – thanks be to God – we reached the conclusion many years ago that no human being has the authority to take away the life of another nor to justify the possibility of that happening. In April 2005, the Members of the Delegation for Relations with the Maghreb Countries and the Arab Maghreb Union had the opportunity to go to Libya and talk about this case with the authorities. At that time there appeared to be a glimmer of hope because the plan – which was subsequently approved – for European Union cooperation with the children and the Bengazi hospital was in operation. Nevertheless, in view of the review of the trial and the new sentence, we have seen that the technical reports that have cleared the Bulgarian nurses of blame — some of them signed by the very person who discovered the AIDS virus and by Oxford scientists — have demonstrated, by means of a philogenetic analysis of the children's virus, that this virus had arrived in Libya many years before the Bulgarian nurses arrived on Libyan soil. In spite of that, we have seen that those reports have not been admitted in the court, and the nurses and the doctor have not therefore been given adequate judicial guarantees. I shall draw to a close, Madam President. Commissioner Barot asked us for discretion and prudence in relation to this issue. In fact, I believe that we have been acting in that way for eight long years now, and we can see how much we have achieved so far. Perhaps the European Union, as well as applying the principles of discretion and prudence, should now place the accent on firmness."@en1

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