Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-01-17-Speech-3-114"

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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	"sk"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070117.7.3-114"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-01-17-Speech-3-1152
lpv:speaker	lp:Miroslav Mikolášik2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ENVI (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3 member; REGI (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3 member; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Israel (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"( ) As an MEP and a physician, I do not believe that a Palestinian doctor and five Bulgarian nurses, whose sacrosanct duty it is to help and cure the sick, would consciously and deliberately have infected children with HIV while doing their work in Libya. I am rather inclined to ask myself whether it is possible to believe Libya and its discredited leader, Colonel Gaddafi. This is a country that is still led by a person who intentionally and deliberately ordered the annihilation of innocent victims by terrorists who blew up a passenger plane over the town of Lockerbie. Apart from its admission of responsibility for this ghastly crime, the only ‘positive’ thing about Libya is its vast deposits of oil and natural gas. The capital punishment meted out to the health professionals is a hideous and cynical act on the part of Gaddafi and his regime, not an expression of the rule of law and justice. I also wonder whether this might be part of a dirty game played by Libya, an attempt to grab huge sums of money in the form of compensation for the children’s lives, or whether perhaps Libya is blackmailing the West and the European Union now that Bulgaria is a member, in an effort to orchestrate the release of the Libyan terrorists who have been justly sentenced and imprisoned for their deeds. I therefore call upon the European Commission, and Germany as the presiding country of the European Council, to make use of all available means to exert political and economic pressure on Libya in order to save the lives of the Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian physician. Political concessions to Gaddafi and his authoritarian policies would be a serious and fatal mistake. Accepting politicians with a terrorist past, or still more so, collaborating with them, is immoral and can undermine the principles on which Europe is built – truth, the rule of law, human rights and respect for human dignity."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Miroslav Mikolášik (PPE-DE )."1 "SK"1

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