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"Mr President, we are correct and honour-bound in this Chamber to take note of and highlight human rights abuses in Syria. To express our concern is the very least we can do. This motion does, in truth, little more than that.
I grew up in the Middle East, so I know the region pretty well. We also need to take account of the wider backdrop to these issues. The fact is that we in Europe are not seen as the good guys. We are not seen as having clean hands. I would refer you to the official government statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Syria issued on 19 May 2006. It says: ‘States which allowed secret flying prisons to cross their airspace and to use their airports and which permitted secret prisons on their territories, which represents a clear infraction of the simplest human rights and international treaties related to this topic, do not have the right to propagate the defence of human rights.’
We have left ourselves in a position where Syria can accuse us of breaching human rights. It is a crazy world, right enough. We are not seen as being the good guys. Hypocrisy is the most odious charge we can be accused of. We stand accused of it right now, with some justification. We need to do more to put our own house in order, as well as look after Syria’s."@en1
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