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"Mr President, I am somewhat surprised that we are here again today examining an urgent resolution on human rights in Tunisia. I should have preferred the majority of this Parliament to pay more attention to this issue before December 2010. We know, as Tunisian democrats know, how silent the European Union was until 14 February 2011 on the human rights violations carried out under the Ben Ali regime. Indeed, the first line of our resolution does not shy away from that point. Read it and you will see. However, the past is the past and it cannot be rewritten. We can only try to learn from it. Tunisia is moving towards a democratic transition. The elections on 23 October took place smoothly. The results are there to see. We must respect the choice made by the Tunisians. We welcome the fact that the new Tunisian authorities have already signed numerous international conventions. We must help them to implement them, without interfering. Supporters of the former RCD continue to play a very active role in the administration, notably the justice ministry and the police. The serious police errors referred to here are proof of that. We must help the new Tunisia, but we must not lecture it. Above all, Commissioner, we must not demand more of this new Tunisia than we did in the past in terms of democracy and human rights. We must pay attention to how we get our message across. I believe that that is very important."@en1
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