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"Mr President, I do not wish to be rendered superfluous by what previous speakers have said. I also come from an area, the Basque Country, where there is a great sense of solidarity, due to the fact that Venezuela is a country which has received immigrants from the whole of Spain and the Basque Country in particular, and which, during the long years of Franco’s dictatorship, lent us inestimable moral and material support.
Furthermore, as we say, “it never rains but it pours”; in recent days we have discovered that there has been an earthquake which measured 6 on the Richter Scale as well as a tidal wave.
Since we all share this sense of solidarity and condolence, I would also like to talk about certain aspects which go beyond material aid in the short term and the resolution itself. We should examine the model of development, not only in Venezuela but also in other countries, bringing it more into line with the need to preserve and respect the environment. We also need to provide aid for the study of these aspects and the negative influence which certain industrial sectors have on the environmental balance, and not only in Venezuela.
We should hold a European Union-Latin America Conference in order to reverse the tendency towards dependency on, and the exportation of, energy resources, as well as the blind exploitation of those resources. We should do everything necessary to prevent these catastrophes.
Therefore, we must turn our attention to all these points and also – of course – to the points appearing in the resolution.
Finally, I do not wish to miss this opportunity to also draw your attention to the claims of human rights violations in Venezuela under the pretext of taking action against looting in the areas affected. We cannot close our eyes to this either. Our solidarity with the Venezuelan people must not lead us to lower our guard in the monitoring of individuals such as President Chávez, a populist President who has shown worrying signs of intolerance and threats to various sectors, including the media, although some European leaders are willing to ‘laugh at his jokes’."@en1
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