Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-24-Speech-1-008"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-09-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Approval of Minutes of previous sitting: see Minutes2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070924.3.1-008"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-09-24-Speech-1-0092
lpv:speaker	lp:Philip Claeys2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; ITS (2007-01-15--2007-11-13)3 member; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vlaams Belang (2004-11-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; TRAN (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 member; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, just a marginal note to this week's part-session. As you know, the first round of voting for the 2007 Sakharov Prize will be taking place shortly. There were five nominees. The ITS Group had nominated a candidate too, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. We now find that the Patriarch has been put under pressure not to stand. To my knowledge nothing like this has ever happened in the whole of the time that European Parliament has awarded the Sakharov Prize. He was happy for his name to be put forward by our Group – Mr Binev asked him and he was perfectly agreeable. This is something quite intolerable. As far as I know it has never happened before that someone has been pressured to withdraw his candidacy purely and simply because he was nominated by a group that rows against the mainstream. Well, in protest at this kind of outrage, this kind of underhand political machination, I can tell you now that the ITS Group will not be voting in the upcoming election."@en1

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