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"Mr President, I wish to draw your attention and that of the House to a serious problem that has arisen in Mozambique involving the alleged trafficking of human organs. Unfortunately, we were not able to reach consensus in the Conference of Presidents on tabling an urgent debate on the issue for this sitting and this is why I ask you to ensure that, at the next sitting, provided no other urgent debates are tabled, the matter can be dealt with by a Communication from the Commission and the Council, to which I have been addressing questions since January.
This is an extremely serious matter. In recent months, we have received reports that between fifty and one hundred children have disappeared, but the full extent of the phenomenon is not known. Since the issue became a matter of public knowledge in January, the interest of the Portuguese public has grown, as has the interest in Spain, because some Spanish missionaries have been threatened. In Brazil, a Brazilian Lutheran missionary who spoke out against this trafficking in Mozambique was murdered recently. The newspaper
and the BBC have both covered the issue and this House cannot continue to ignore the matter.
This holds all the more true because, unfortunately, the Council is dragging its feet on the Greek Presidency’s proposal for a framework decision on the trafficking in organs, which we examined in this Chamber last October and, consequently, some information must be provided on this problem in general and more specifically on the tragedy unfolding in Mozambique."@en1
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