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dcterms:Date	"2012-06-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU Special Representative for Human Rights (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120612.17.2-336-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Rui Tavares2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; CRIM (2012-04-18--2013-10-23)3 substitute; CULT (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; G/EFA (2011-06-24--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Independente (2011-06-30--2014-06-30)3 member; DROI (2012-01-19--2013-04-17)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Lady Ashton, for many years, the European Parliament has been arguing for and advocating the existence of this Special Representative for Human Rights, this Special Representative of the European Union. We have now reached the home stretch of this marathon and there are just two key things missing in order for us to be sure that everything will go according to plan once we have appointed the Special Representative. We have to appoint a person who will be suitable for the initial period; who will be able to live up to the role of Special Representative in this initial period. Clearly, the person appointed – as our rapporteur, Mr Salafranca, said – will have to work and cooperate with Parliament. We also have to finalise their mandate. It is therefore very important, as we all know and as we all agree, to ensure that this person will not create a human rights ghetto, but rather that they will turn EU policy, trade agreements, the Member States’ bilateral relations and multilateral relations with international authorities into expressions of human rights; we agree on that. In the home stretch of this marathon towards the appointment of our Special Representative, I will focus on the areas where I think we still need to reach agreement. I cannot understand why the mandate of the Special Representative, who is the Special Representative of the European Union, still does not include a strict obligation of accountability to Parliament and I would like a clear answer – yes or no – before the mandate is finalised. They cannot be a representative of the European Union without being accountable to the Parliament of that same European Union and that is crucial: they will be accountable to the other institutions but not to Parliament. It is crucial. We want to see the Special Representative here in Strasbourg during human rights emergencies and we want to see them – this is my final question – in the Working Group on Human Rights. The second question is whether it will be possible to formalise this group and get something in writing to that effect. My thanks, Lady Ashton, for expressing your support for the existence of this working group. Now we need something in writing to that effect."@en1
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