Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-05-Speech-4-138"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights in Zimbabwe2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020905.10.4-138"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-05-Speech-4-1392
lpv:speaker	lp:Geoffrey Van Orden2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, it is with both sadness and frustration that I find myself presenting yet another resolution on Zimbabwe – the sixth within a year. The fact is that the situation there is getting worse and the European Union's actions to date have clearly been ineffective. They are not being pursued with sufficient determination or vigour. The European Union sends diplomatic missions to southern Africa but they come back empty handed and leave behind no impression that action against Zimbabwe is a high priority and a determining factor in the overall approach to southern Africa. Let us be clear: the issue is not the rights of white farmers, it is the rights of all of the people of Zimbabwe. If you are not a card-carrying Zanu-PF member then you are subject to harassment, discrimination, assault, selective starvation policies and murder. How serious does it have to get before effective action is taken? President Mugabe has just returned to Harare from Johannesburg claiming support for his land policies. This is a travesty. To quote the opposition MDC, 'Mugabe's land reform programme has resulted in massive environmental degradation, condemned hundreds of thousands to poverty and put six million people at risk of starvation'. That is the reality. President Mugabe is a tyrant who has plundered the resources of his country for his own benefit and that of his cronies and who uses the apparatus of the state, including the police, to terrify and abuse his political opponents. Imagine our horror, therefore, when we discovered that Augustine Chihuri, the Zimbabwe police chief who is actually named on the European Union's prescribed list as being banned from travelling to EU countries, was nevertheless in France last week, at an Interpol meeting in Lyon. You might rightly ask what a person like Chihuri is doing as a vice-president of Interpol in the first place, but that is a different question. The fact is that he should not have been in France and the Council must now take vigorous and effective steps to close the loopholes and galvanise international moves against President Mugabe before the tragedy of Zimbabwe is again overshadowed by other international crises. Let us have some determined action for the sake of all the people of Zimbabwe."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-13--2004-04-30)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Van Orden (PPE-DE )."1

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