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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are experiencing another tragic chapter in Russia’s development after the end of the Soviet Union. We can certainly understand why the Russian Government, against the backdrop of terrorist attacks against its civilian population, would like to take vigorous action. However, one must distinguish between vigorous action in the sense of a legal development and what is currently taking place in Chechnya. There were many dead and injured as a result of the first Chechen conflict, numbers being totally comparable with the dead and injured witnessed in other conflicts world-wide, as well as in Europe.
It is not right that we, as the European Parliament, on the one hand criticise human rights’ violations in other regions and make strenuous efforts to put a stop to them while, on the other hand, stay silent on the issue in Russia because we are talking about an important economic partner. Even in Russia’s case, the European Parliament is called upon and (we, as the European Union are called upon) to defend all people clearly and unequivocally, and to speak out in favour of human rights and against human rights’ violations. For this reason, it is good that we are today dealing with this matter in an urgent procedure."@en1
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