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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2016-01-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU citizens under detention in India, notably Italian, Estonian and UK citizens2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20160121.25.4-434-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2016-01-21-Speech-4-435-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Geoffrey Van Orden2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, the most effective response to piracy has proved to be the use of on-board security teams. These teams tend to live on what we might call mother ships, which are in effect floating armouries from which teams of guards are sent to join ships which require protection. The motor vessel was just such a floating armoury and on 11 October 2013 it was apparently in Indian territorial waters when it was intercepted by the Indian Coastguard and escorted to the port of Tuticorin. Subsequently all 35 members of the crew, including 14 Estonians and six Britons, were charged, and they are the subject of this resolution. After some legal arguments and to our great consternation they were eventually brought to trial and given the maximum sentence of five years’ imprisonment. Throughout this period of over two years they have been held in custody in India. I have to say we respect India’s sovereignty over its territory and waters and the fact that it has a fine legal tradition. We know also that India has suffered from atrocious terrorist attacks, some mounted from the sea. We therefore understand very well Indian sensitivities. However, in this case the personnel concerned were no threat to India and carried out no acts of violence against Indian interests. On the contrary, they were engaged in counter-terrorism. These men, British and Estonian and others, have had to endure a difficult imprisonment and now have an uncertain future. Their families are in distress. We ask the Indian authorities with all respect to allow these men to return home, pending completion of the judicial processes and for a rapid and benign conclusion to this matter."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; PECH (2014-07-01--2016-12-12)3 member; AFET (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3 member; SEDE (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3 substitute; LIBE (2015-12-15--2017-01-18)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 162(8))"1 "Geoffrey Van Orden,"1 "Seaman Guard Ohio"1 "author"1
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