Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-16-Speech-4-166"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990916.11.4-166"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-16-Speech-4-1672
lpv:speaker	lp:Didier Rod2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Les Verts-Europe-Ecologie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"The situation in Togo is not new. Indeed, since General Eyadema seized power, there have been constant violations of human rights: executions, cases of torture and arrests. After the electoral fraud last year which allowed General Eyadema to hold on to power, we are right to be worried about the democratic intentions of this regime. The absence of an independent electoral commission, the absence of fair access to the media, the absence of any guarantee of the right to campaign, have all led the opposition, which is in the majority, to boycott next spring’s legislative elections. Even if we take the agreement recently signed with the opposition to be a step forward, it is still inadequate, and risks being a meaningless scrap of paper unless it provides a number of guarantees. We must bring an immediate end to the impunity enjoyed by those who commit such abuses, and we must also ensure that the authorities do in fact respect human rights. The parliament must not only be dissolved, but we must also demand Mr Eyadema’s resignation, before the end of his term of office, so that genuinely free and fair elections can be organised. These conditions must be met if the European Union is to resume co-operation with Togo."@en1

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