Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-11-21-Speech-3-497-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-11-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Negotiations for an EU-Kazakhstan enhanced partnership and cooperation agreement (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20121121.29.3-497-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-11-21-Speech-3-498-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Liisa Jaakonsaari2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament (2009-09-29--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; EMPL (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue/Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, the negotiations for the agreement between Kazakhstan and the EU are indeed a test for the European Union with regard to how the soft power of the European Union is used properly, and this is also a test for Parliament with regard to how we will use the opportunity given to Parliament by the Treaty of Lisbon to influence the negotiations. It was encouraging to hear the address by the High Representative and President-in-Office concerning the fact that the negotiations may indeed be suspended if the human-rights situation is in fact going in the direction implied by yesterday’s news. I do not regard postponement of the vote as any sort of solution; on the contrary, there must now be clear guidelines for Parliament concerning how the High Representative will proceed, what sort of addresses she might make and what stance she will adopt on the matter during the visit and, above all, how these negotiations will progress. Therefore, Parliament must now have clear guidelines for the negotiations, and it is important that Parliament is kept informed and, as Ms Jeggle suggested, we will request an oral amendment to these presentations tomorrow, given yesterday’s bad news, so that the Kazakh authorities actually rescind the decisions to restrict media freedom and which will in practice make the work of the opposition even more difficult, or perhaps impossible. I would like to extend my warm thanks for an interesting debate, and I hope and consider it important that Parliament will be kept continuously informed of how the negotiations are progressing; tomorrow we will issue instructions regarding what must be done in the forthcoming negotiations."@en1
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