Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-01-19-Speech-3-544-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-01-19"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Catherine Ashton2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I very much wish to thank you and all the honourable Members who have participated in this very important, focused and well-considered debate today. I will, of course, study Parliament’s resolution on this important and challenging issue. It is now still only a month since this crisis began, and events move quickly. My hope is, of course, that they will now move in a positive direction, in line with the goals that we all share. The detainees should be released and Belarus should lay the foundations to embark on an inclusive reform process. I stress my hope that parliamentary cooperation will continue to have an important role to play in that process. Many honourable Members have endorsed the ideas that I set out in the beginning: the need to be absolutely clear about the unacceptability of what has happened, to be clear that we wish to take steps on this, and to be clear that we wish to support civil society, young people, the media and students – the categories that many honourable Members have talked about. I will take great heart from the comments that have been made. We will now move forward to make sure that we do this. Finally, when I met the families and the opposition leaders who came to meet with me, I was absolutely clear with them that we expected to see people released from prison and Belarus move forward, in the way that we would all wish, towards real democracy. I also made very direct comments to the Foreign Minister. It is in their hands to reverse their position and to do what they know that they must. If they do not, then the international community will and must act."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Catherine Ashton,"1 "Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy."1
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