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dcterms:Date	"2012-04-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Negotiations of the EU-Azerbaijan association agreement - Negotiations of the EU-Armenia association agreement (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120417.19.2-193-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-04-17-Speech-2-194-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Monica Macovei2
lpv:spokenAs	member; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2009-09-17--2014-06-30)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-17--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partidul Democrat-Liberal (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; CRIM (2012-03-28--2013-10-23)3 member; CONT (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to start from the core problem preventing fully-fledged development and stability in the south Caucasus region: the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Occupying territories and preventing refugees and internally displaced persons from returning to their homes is against European values. Some believe that negotiations within the framework of the Minsk basic principles would bring an agreement to resolve this problem. In my view, the negotiations were not robust enough and did not bring the expected results. We will have to agree to disagree on the results of these negotiations. This is why I believe that the European Union should take a more active role in the settlement of this conflict and call on Armenia to withdraw its forces from the occupied territories in Nagorno-Karabakh, along with confidence-building measures and multinational peacekeeping operations. This is why I insist and reiterate that the Union should be involved in the negotiations using the experience of its Member States, and I also refer to the experience of the Baltic countries in the 1990s when it comes to holding – or not – a possible referendum in future. On visa facilitation, I welcome the launch in March of the negotiations on the visa facilitation and readmission agreement, but our cooperation on mobility should go further. Once all the conditions are met we should aim for visa liberalisation. People-to-people contact is crucial. Azerbaijan still has many challenges ahead, especially with regard to the judiciary, to the fight against corruption and organised crime, and, in particular, to implementing international law on human rights. Many things are to be done and I would recommend focusing on high-level corruption cases, which are the test for both judges and politicians, and on improving transparency of public income and expenditure."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Monica Luisa Macovei,"1 "on behalf of the PPE Group."1
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