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"Mr President, ‘Europe acted as one’. That was the main message of President Sarkozy’s review of the French Presidency that we have just heard. He undoubtedly set the tempo of dynamism that has clearly contributed to the success of these six months.
I welcome the fact that, as President-in-Office of the Council, he met the Dalai Lama at the gathering of Nobel Peace Prize winners in Gdańsk in Poland. We in the European Parliament had the honour of hosting His Holiness the Dalai Lama two weeks ago in Brussels, where he gave a speech to the plenary. Through a fast to which over 500 people signed up, and with Tibetan shawls, we demonstrated our solidarity with the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people. We supported his middle way, his willingness to enter into dialogue and his unwavering commitment to non-violence. He has always spoken out in favour of Tibetan autonomy rather than putting the case for separatism, as the Chinese allege.
Recent months have shown that the Council, the Commission and Parliament all agree that this is the only way. What I would like to know is, what will Europe do now in the light of Beijing’s cancellation of the official EU-China talks? How can the Council finally succeed in involving China in making human rights a reality? The government in Beijing is, in reality, attempting to dismiss human rights as ‘Western values’ rather than integrating them into its policies."@en1
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