Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-10-22-Speech-4-211"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-10-22"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20091022.22.4-211"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Carl Haglund2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2009-07-20--2012-07-04)3 member; Delegation for relations with Afghanistan (2009-09-16--2010-12-12)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2012-07-04)3 substitute; ECON (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 vice-chair; PECH (2009-07-20--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3 unknown; Svenska folkpartiet (2009-07-14--2012-07-04)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I will not repeat all of the intelligent and sensible things that have already been said by my fellow Members. I would firstly like to say that I am very pleased that this issue is being debated here today. I will briefly say a few words about the debate we had in the committee about the fisheries agreement on 30 September. In fact, when we debated this issue, you would have thought that the EU was in the process of entering into a trade agreement with any old Western democracy. Nowhere in the discussion or in the documents was it mentioned that the agreement in front of us was with a nation in which the situation is as it is today and which has already been described very well in this House. Many people perhaps thought that fisheries and human rights are completely separate issues and that we should not mix the two together. Personally, I cannot understand how, as a politician, anyone could think in that way. The fact that the votes in the committee were 11 to 9 in favour of not concluding the agreement is also very worrying. This means that there was quite a large group in Parliament that, at least at that stage, thought that it was perfectly alright to enter into a trade agreement with a country like Guinea with the sort of regime that it has. I am pleased to say, firstly, that there is now a much higher level of agreement for us taking a clear line with regard to Guinea and, secondly, that there is broad support for the Council actually having withdrawn this agreement now. I am extremely pleased about this. Some people may well think that those in favour of the agreement being withdrawn are not thinking about the fishermen who will be affected, but that is by no means the case. Of course, we must find a sustainable solution for them, but we cannot sweep human rights under the carpet simply because we have a number of fishing boats that need to be provided for."@en1
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