Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-10-08-Speech-3-124"

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dcterms:Date	"2008-10-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Belarus (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"hu"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20081008.17.3-124"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-10-08-Speech-3-1252
lpv:speaker	lp:Árpád Duka-zólyomi2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-10-27--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Strana mad'arskej koalície - Magyar Koalíció Pártja (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; DROI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Belarus (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"( ) Thank you, Madam President. Even if the Belarusian parliamentary elections, observed by the OSCE, did not meet the requirements for fair and free elections, next week’s sitting of the Council of Ministers will in all probability give the green light for political dialogue. Lukashenko has not done anything unusual. After the war in Georgia three political prisoners were set free. This satisfied the EU’s only condition for the initiation of dialogue. It is obvious that after the war in Georgia the West needed every little move it could make to try to counterbalance Moscow’s growing influence in post-Soviet territory. But if even Lukashenko succeeded in arranging the dialogue to his own liking, what kind of dialogue can we expect with Moscow? Brussels must initiate dialogue on the basis of a previously agreed benchmark system, otherwise the EU can only lose in this dialogue. Lukashenko will use this to reinforce his domestic authority and keep Moscow on a leash, not to offer gradual political liberalisation. Meantime the EU could lose its greatest Eastern weapon, its image. It’s up to us to decide …"@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"HU"1 "Árpád Duka-Zólyomi (PPE-DE ). -"1
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