Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2015-02-12-Speech-4-092-000"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Alyn Smith2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I think it is useful to remember in this House that our duty is to the people of a region, a country, a state, and not necessarily the present regime in charge of it. We have seen how quickly that can change. I count myself as a friend of Saudi Arabia – I grew up in Riyadh, I have many happy memories of my time within the country. And it is precisely that friendship and our values that oblige us to be true to our values and to be vocal about the systematic deliberate and widespread human rights abuses going on within that country. Raïf Badawi – and I thank Amnesty Scotland for their work on his behalf – is emblematic, and that is precisely the point. He is important because the Saudi authorities chose to make him important: they chose to make an example of him. It is right that we should react to his plight. But there are thousands of others, and this resolution is for all of them. I would end with a plea to our Member States. As Mr Howitt rightly said, if our cooperation is to mean anything, we must be true to our values. My plea to the Member States – not least my own, the United Kingdom – is that if we think a little bit less about arms sales and a little bit more about our values, we might be taken more seriously."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Alyn Smith,"1 "on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group"1
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