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"Madam President, I consider it a major achievement that the post of EU Special Representative for Human Rights can finally be created, and I hope that it will not remain simply a post, but will grow into a quite significant institution. We all agree here in Parliament that the creation of this post in the EU has long been overdue. Parliament has been urging it for years.
I am pleased to note that in the current draft of the Council conclusions, the originally proposed one-year period has been replaced by two years; this was, after all, one of the main points of our European report: the extension of the duration of the mandate. It takes time for the work of a new representative to produce noticeable international effect.
Furthermore, when creating this new human rights post, it is essential to define an appropriate, flexible and effective mandate, and to provide all the means necessary to allow for its implementation, as well as to ensure that there is an opportunity for the person holding the post of representative to respond to Parliament’s questions over the course of his or her mandate. The adoption of this human rights package by the Council will represent another step towards the creation of an EU human rights strategy, which I hope will promote effectiveness in this field."@en1
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