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"Mr President, I would like to start by wishing all of the individual participants in the European Games well.
The oral question we have put to the Council quite rightly points out that sporting events have a transcending potential and can contribute to nobler causes such as human rights and, indeed, peace itself. We therefore trust that the point has been made to the European External Action Service and the Council by the special representative, Mr Lambrinidis, who was in Azerbaijan as recently as February.
Yet we have seen, particularly in the run-up to the Games, that there is a confirmed pattern of systematic deficiencies, especially as far as freedom of expression is concerned. The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights has said on the record, ‘All of my partners in Azerbaijan are in jail.’ The list includes Leyla Yunus, Hilal Mammadov, Intigam Aliyev, Rasul Jafarov – and it goes on. This is a very long list indeed.
To our friends in Azerbaijan our message is simple: you are absolutely right in seeing the Baku European Games as a spotlight on Azerbaijan. It is now up to you to use or not to use this unique opportunity to demonstrate that Azerbaijan truly adheres to the international commitments on human rights that it has signed up to. It is up to you to demonstrate whether there is a community of values that binds us, or not."@en1
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