Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-10-21-Speech-2-312"
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"en.20081021.39.2-312"2
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"Mr President, I speak today not only as a representative of my political group and a member of the EU-Russia delegation but also as the only native Russian-speaking Member of this Parliament.
Some politicians forget that Russia is actually Europe’s biggest country by population and Russian speakers are the European Union’s biggest minority group – up to 10 million people. Unfortunately, many of those who speak of Russia’s resources think simply of raw materials and forget the human dimension. We must remember that people are the basis for EU-Russia relations. The European Union’s Russian speakers favour relations between the EU and Russia based on a strategic partnership. We support not just an EU-Russia common market, as President Sarkozy said today, but also the freer movement of people. We support human rights – also mentioned by Mr Sarkozy – but we oppose the double standards whereby the European Union’s institutions turn a blind eye to the violations of the rights of Russian speakers in the Baltic States."@en1
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