Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-14-Speech-3-047"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-02-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Transportation and illegal detention of prisoners (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070214.2.3-047"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-02-14-Speech-3-0482
lpv:speaker	lp:Hannes Swoboda2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2004-09-21--2007-03-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 vice-chair; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I wish to extend warm thanks to Mr Fava and Mr Coelho for the outstanding work they have done. It has been demonstrated that a number people were abducted from European soil by American entities, and this was, in my view, very definitely illegal. Not as much has come to light as some might well have expected, but that is attributable to the tactics of obfuscation adopted not only by the USA, but also by many European governments. Today, again, from what I hear, a number of Members of this House are more interested in getting the fog generator up and running than in getting at the facts of the matter. If I may turn to my own country, Austria, the report does indeed refer ‘only’ to the abductions of non-Austrians outside Austrian territory, but this is not about people’s rights as citizens; it is about their rights as people! The fact is that, if people are abducted and put into the hands of ‘judicial authorities’ that are known to use torture, some of them extensively, then it is scandalous that European governments do not intervene and see that justice is done, whether or not the persons in question are citizens of the states over which they rule, for they are, in any case, human beings who are living legally in our European countries. I also think there is something highly problematic when a number of governments simply fail to respond, and when a number of national parliaments do not take seriously the obligation incumbent on them of getting to the bottom of what has been going on. I do think that this House, in setting up this committee, did the right thing, for it makes it a matter of record that we, in this House, are committed to human rights and to those rules that are necessary in order that those rights be indeed recognised and put into practice in Europe. That is the point of this committee, and that is the conclusion to which its report brings us."@en1
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