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"Ladies and gentlemen, I think that the most important gift that God has given Man is the dog. You are familiar with the quotation from Madame Roland, who would be guillotined during the French Revolution: ‘The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs,’ while Lord Byron wrote: ‘Dogs have all the virtues of man without his vices.’ I represent in this Chamber several millions of animal-lovers from my country who are outraged by the cruelty shown towards stray dogs which are ruthlessly killed. Foreign visitors to Romania are appalled to see dogs’ dead bodies lying on the roads, a barbaric sight which even children have to witness. At the moment, the prefect of Bucharest is requesting an amendment to a law amended by the Romanian Parliament, calling for the elimination of stray dogs. However, dogs are guardian angels. It is also well known that in days gone by, they helped protect the health of the inhabitants of fortified towns because where there are dogs, there are no rats or snakes. I ask the European Parliament to request that the Romanian Government complies with the Universal Declaration of Animal Rights issued in Paris in 1978. We must put an end to the massacre of stray dogs in Romania. Anyone who does not love animals does not love people either. For goodness’ sake, we are, after all, living in the third millennium AD!"@en1
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