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"Mr President, as we stand here the Putin regime is under pressure in the run up to the Sochi Games because of its stance on equality for gay people and of course it should be under pressure. Equality of all citizens under the law is a desirable precept, but if I were Putin I would be astonished to think that I am being criticised now for having literally got away with murder in the decades leading up to this moment: the repression of journalists, the autocratic system, the way in which every contiguous country has felt the pressure of Russian revanchism: the Baltics, Bulgaria, the Caucasian States, in the case of Georgia literally an invasion. This is not a question of internal repression; the regime in the Kremlin has crossed the border into breaking international law. In the case of the Litvinenko affair it collaborated, to put it as neutrally as possible, with the murder of a citizen living under the Queen’s peace in the United Kingdom. That really is, unlike some of the other motions for resolutions that we have been discussing today, a cause for us to take direct diplomatic international action to defend our legitimate interests."@en1
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