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"Mr President, the Klich-Sakalas report has the merit of underlining the absolute necessity of ensuring the protection of human rights in the implementation of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Nonetheless, tomorrow, at voting time, I shall oppose the amendments aimed at deleting all reference to the illegal detention and transportation of alleged terrorists in European Union territory, and I shall ask my fellow Members to do the same.
Today we are celebrating World Refugee Day and I remember the remarks made, right here, by Kofi Annan, describing as shameful the European Union’s policy in relation to asylum and immigration. What has changed since? Despite the conflicts that mark out the world, the European Union accepts fewer and fewer refugees. The number of asylum seekers in the EU has reduced by half since the 1990s. Today, for example, the rate of acceptance of asylum applications for people from Darfur is incredibly low. The European Union also refuses to accept its responsibilities in relation to Iraqi refugees. More than four million Iraqis are today forced to move and, in spite of that, the German Presidency has stated that Member States do not wish to take part in a resettlement programme for refugees.
The heated negotiations on readmission agreements obliging third countries to admit on their territory any person in transit there causes, as you know, disastrous humanitarian situations and serious violations of the right to international protection and of the principle of non-refoulement. These agreements transfer to third countries responsibilities that they are not generally capable of assuming. This ‘forced march’ policy discredits in part the efforts made in other respects for the protection of fundamental rights in third countries.
The European Commission ought to make clear and practical proposals to get away from this schizophrenia. A transparent monitoring procedure for these agreements needs to be set up; effective recourse in the event of violation of rights following refusal of entry should be put in place. The Commission could also appoint, within its Frontex teams, people with special training in human rights and humanitarian law to properly ensure that international commitments and conventions are being observed."@en1
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