Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-12-Speech-1-059"
Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
---|---|
rdf:type | |
dcterms:Date | |
dcterms:Is Part Of | |
dcterms:Language | |
lpv:document identification number |
"en.20070212.12.1-059"2
|
lpv:hasSubsequent | |
lpv:speaker | |
lpv:spoken text |
"Mr President, I wish to raise the event last week in Paris where the International Treaty to outlaw enforced disappearances by governments was opened for signature. Fifty-seven states signed it and I congratulate them. I regret that my own country, Ireland, was not among them.
Over 50 000 people have been disappeared by governments over the last 25 years. Forty thousand of them are still missing and their families do not know if they are dead or alive. It is astonishing to me that only eight EU Member States signed last week, given that it was agreed last November, following five years of negotiations and a twenty-year campaign.
There are also worrying reports that the United States and some EU Member States are going to refuse to sign this Treaty. The reason I am raising it here, Mr President, is that I would ask you to have the Commission and the Council clarify in this House that all EU Member States are committed to this Treaty and will sign it without delay."@en1
|
lpv:spokenAs | |
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata |
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples