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"en.20120612.17.2-347-000"2
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"Madam President, the appointment of an EU Special Representative for Human Rights can, and must, prove to be a beneficial move, provided – of course – that certain steps are taken. The most important is his accountability to the European Parliament. A second important point is his freedom of action or, even more, the freedom he will acquire during the performance of his duties. The European Union can, and must, highlight human rights as a question of crucial importance to the future of mankind. However, in order to achieve that, I must emphasise that we need to be firmly convinced that political expediencies will have no voice or place in the representative’s activities in connection with the vital issue of human rights. Other important points are who will undertake this job, how accountable he will be towards those who appoint him, how accountable he will be, as I said earlier, to the European Parliament and the degree to which he understands that human rights must be respected everywhere in the world and in the European Union itself. I should like to close by saying that I wonder if the representative in question will be entitled or obliged to look at the blatant violation of human rights in Member States of the European Union by countries seeking to join the Union."@en1
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