Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-14-Speech-3-472-000"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Leonidas Donskis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with Israel (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; DROI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2009-07-20--2014-06-30)3 substitute; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Lietuvos Respublikos liberalų sąjūdis (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-24--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; DEVE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, I have to admit I am concerned by this tendency of nevertheless trying to replace real action with fine, polite and correct words when responding to a fundamental problem, and in Kazakhstan, we are facing a very serious problem. The problem is the direction it took following the elections in May 2011 when Nursultan Nazarbayev became President again. For a long time, Kazakhstan had been very different to other countries in Central Asia: it was more tolerant and more secular than other countries in the region and ahead of them in terms of both its economic progress and its openness. Sadly, what we have witnessed lately are attacks on freedom of opinion and thought, politically motivated courts, many political prisoners, and the brutal shooting of demonstrating workers in the town of Zhanaozen. I am therefore convinced that we cannot renege on such things as democracy, human rights and the very fact that these are non-negotiable just because here we are talking about an important and rich country with economic potential. I therefore want to add that the thing that shocked me was that, for instance, Vladimir Kozlov, the leader of the People’s Party was arrested as soon as he returned from Strasbourg, after the plenary session during which he met me and my other colleagues. It seems to me that until these people are released, until they are no longer considered as they are currently, then there can be no talk of the government becoming more aware of what is going on or of some concessions that we would make. Either the political prisoners and dissidents are released or we have to issue a very severe warning and respond even more harshly."@en1
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