Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-16-Speech-4-164"
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"en.19990916.11.4-164"2
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"Mr President, the ageing dictatorial dinosaurs which stalk across the African sub-continent are dying and a new dawn of democracy is appearing. But in one country, a dinosaur has presided over a regime responsible for widespread human rights violations for 32 years. President Eyadema would be my first candidate for bringing before the new International Criminal Court. The situation there is grave. We know about the deaths at the time of the elections. We know about the human rights activists tortured in jail every day. We need to use the office of the EU facilitator to sort that out, to get an agreement between Eyadema and the opposition parties to take Togo to democracy. We call on the Council which will be meeting to make sure that the office for the facilitators is given the resources that it needs in order to be able to do that job.
Cooperation between the European Union and Togo should only be resumed when Togo fully complies with the provisions of Article 5 of the Lomé Convention. In the meantime we should be supporting independent media and civil society groups to bring what help we can to the population."@en1
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