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"Mr President, I wish to concentrate my observations on two areas of this report in particular. The first is human rights abuses in Kashmir and the second is the fight against terrorism.
I wish to start by discussing paragraph 49 on Kashmir. I would firstly like formally to thank Mr Coveney for his approach in dealing with this matter and the way in which he has been open to considering representations made by my colleague Mrs Lynne and myself. Through a process of dialogue between our respective offices, paragraph 49 is now an adequate recognition of the position.
Of course I welcome the dialogue between Pakistan and India, but we must not forget that the people of Kashmir are also stakeholders in this process. We cannot expect real lasting peace in the region unless they are able to play their full and proper part in the dialogue. Equally, I welcome the recognition of the role of the Indian military and police in carrying out abuses and call upon the Indian Government to do all within its power to end such abuse immediately. Equally, I urge the wider world to recognise that this burning issue between two nuclear powers deserves external input to facilitate dialogue between the stakeholders.
On the issue of the fight against terrorism, I welcome paragraphs 101 to 108 as they deal directly with issues pertaining to the current situation in many countries, including some European states, where citizens who follow the Islamic faith are being targeted in a systematic fashion for no reason other than the fact that they choose to follow the Islamic faith or they are perceived to be Muslim. This has been explicitly admitted by government ministers at a national government level and is something against which we must take a stand as a parliament. I am therefore encouraged by the above paragraphs, as we are taking a stand on the issue of the unnecessary and disproportionate erosion of civil liberties undertaken by governments against their own citizens under the guise of the prevention of terrorism.
Finally, I wish to highlight paragraph 111, to draw attention to the use by some states of torture by proxy and the potential reliance on evidence obtained by such means. I am saddened to say that there are reports of prisoners being removed from within the EU to outside countries, for evidence to be extracted by the use of torture. As a parliament we are duty-bound to disapprove of such activities."@en1
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