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"Mr President, we have before us an exceptionally high standard report on human rights, and I am now speaking of Mrs Malmström’s report, and what is also gratifying about it is the fact that it was drafted in close cooperation with independent NGOs. Without civil society we are living in a vacuum. We cannot breathe unless we are motivated from outside, from grassroots level.
The report contains a number of excellent and well-considered proposals. I would like to draw your attention here to just three, regarding which my Group has been active. They are: the need to act when independent journalists are attacked, the need to protect conscientious objectors and deserters, and the need to develop smart sanctions, which do not make conditions wretched for vast sections of the population, but which are targeted at the political tyrants that have amassed riches. This is a precision weapon, which must be utilised more.
Speaking more generally, as Mrs Malmström herself also said, we have to develop a strategic approach to all the problems we are speaking about today. It must be a dynamic one and one that can penetrate the reality of the situation at all levels. We cannot go about correcting obvious wrongdoings by merely resorting to rhetorical commitment. The Finnish writer Samuli Paronen wrote: “big crimes need many accomplices, millions – all those who do nothing”."@en1
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