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"en.20110310.14.4-237-000"2
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"The European Parliament has long had a policy of double standards concerning human rights. It is also well known that it has a narrow and self-serving conception of the declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Once again, in this report, the selective way in which various countries are mentioned is clear. Countries with which the EU maintains economic and diplomatic relations, and to which it attributes strategic importance, have been left out because of the strategic interests they serve, despite their serious violations of human rights. Examples of these countries include Israel, Columbia and Morocco, to name but three, on different continents. For our part, we do not have a restrictive view of human rights.
We take the entire content of the declaration seriously, which we feel, most importantly, inspired our political intervention. Finally, we object to the idea of the European Union having a permanent seat on the United Nations General Assembly for the simple reason that it would not make sense in light of the spirit and principles of the organisation, contained in the United Nations Charter. The UN is, and must continue to be, an organisation of independent and sovereign states."@en1
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