Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-11-17-Speech-4-120"
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"en.20051117.14.4-120"2
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I and my British Conservative colleagues supported this resolution although it is considerably watered down from what I originally drafted on behalf of the EPP-ED Group. Restricting the scope of the resolution to President Ahmadinejad's call to 'wipe Israel off the world map' was a wasted opportunity to highlight Iran's apparent determination to make a nuclear bomb and its widespread human rights abuses, including the regular execution of consenting homosexuals and others who commit acts branded by the regime as 'crimes of sexual chastity'.
President Ahmadinejad's comments about Israel – made three weeks ago – have already been condemned stridently and unreservedly by all major political leaders in Europe and beyond. Another round of denunciation by MEPs serves no useful purpose. Ahmadinejad's words are an outrageous threat but his actions could give Iran the power to make good that threat. This is no time for rhetoric."@en1
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