Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-03-10-Speech-3-369"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-03-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Cuba (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"cs"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100310.23.3-369"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-03-10-Speech-3-3702
lpv:speaker	lp:Edvard Kožušník2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PECH (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; IMCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; JURI (2009-07-21--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Občanská demokratická strana (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"I was personally very upset about the death of Orlando Zapata, and I would therefore like, on behalf of the entire ECR group, to express condolences to all of his family. I myself was born in 1971, at the peak of the so-called communist normalisation in my country, which was one of the harshest periods of communist terror that my country went through. The experience which my country had with the criminal ideology of communism is the reason for the great solidarity of Czech citizens with the Cuban people, and we are therefore very sensitive to the sad news that has recently come out of Cuba. Given that the totalitarian regime in Cuba is still asserting the slogan ‘socialism or death’, forty years after the Cuban revolution, it deserves no tolerance whatsoever. I believe that Orlando Zapata’s death was not in vain and that it will rouse the Cuban people to mass resistance against the communist regime. When Pavel Wonka died in a communist prison as the last victim of communist terror in my own country, the regime collapsed within a year and a half. I hope that Orlando Zapata will be the Cuban Pavel Wonka, in other words, the last victim of communist despotism. Cuba will perhaps soon break free from the grip of the revolutionary old guard and will become a true island of freedom. I therefore appeal to you. Until there is fundamental and irreversible progress in the release of political prisoners, progress leading to the democratic functioning of the Cuban society and the holding of free elections, as well as a start to the process of structural reforms leading, among other things, to a better standard of living for all Cuban citizens, then it is impossible to consider opening talks on a reassessment of the EU’s common position."@en1
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