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"Madam President, my thanks go to Ms Jäätteenmäki for an excellent report. The negotiations of the EU-Azerbaijan association agreement are an important means to bring about change, reform and modernisation. In the long term, cooperation promotes economic integration and the convergence of legislation with the EU. At the same time, it is also important to develop cultural relations. In this way, we can have a more comprehensive influence on democratic development.
The Eurovision Song Contest is to be held in Azerbaijan, and that will bring the attention of the media to the country’s situation, at least for a while. The European Union, too, should take every advantage of that opportunity, by calling for improvements to the country’s human rights situation at the same time.
Azerbaijan has continued to imprison youth activists and journalists for no good reason or on trumped-up charges. Thousands were also driven from their homes when whole residential areas were razed to the ground by the state. The European External Action Service should systematically monitor the human rights situation in Azerbaijan, and continue to do so after the television cameras have left there, when the Eurovision Song Contest is over."@en1
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