Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-06-13-Speech-3-374-000"
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"en.20120613.24.3-374-000"2
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"By voting against this report and its suggestion to create an EU Representative on Human Rights, I am not in any way diminishing the importance which I place on the protection of human rights, both in the EU and beyond. Faced with this proposal, my two questions are simple – would such an office result in a marked improvement in worldwide human rights records? I fear the answer to be no. And secondly, is this function carried out already? The answer being yes. For it is not just a function fulfilled by Member State governments across the EU, but also by global organisations such as the UN. If the EU insists on imposing its views on others – which we know the EU does – with the vast resources available to the High Representative on Foreign Affairs, surely this role should be carried out by Baroness Ashton? Before the EU goes global in lecturing others on human rights, it has much to learn itself about human rights. All you need ask is the street preacher who faces arrest as his freedom of religious expression is suppressed."@en1
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