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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-10-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991007.4.4-038"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-07-Speech-4-0392
lpv:speaker	lp:Olivier Dupuis2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-09-16--2000-01-17)3 member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees for relations with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; TGI (1999-07-20--2001-10-02)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would first of all like to thank Mr Frassoni, Mr Thors and Mr Manisco for their support for the text of this resolution. I think that we are very close to achieving the first great result from the UN General Assembly and that it is important that we make an effort to ensure that the final text is a genuine text, a text which allows us to continue this battle which, as other speakers have said, is particularly close to this Parliament’s heart. We risk – as is the case after debates within the Council – having a weak text, which will simply reproduce those which have been adopted over the last three years in Geneva and which will not allow us to continue this battle, set new deadlines, or create mechanisms which allow us to verify the steps taken or the progress made to date. I therefore ask the Council not to get bogged down in philosophical debates, but to see to it that the mechanisms allowing us to continue this battle are included in the text and that the drafting may soon be completed, so that the Council and the Commission – and we have Mr Patten’s assurance on this – may begin the work of convincing the 180 Member States of the United Nations. It is urgent. The House has already begun its task. The days and weeks to come must be used to give solid form to this great text in favour of the abolition of the death penalty by the General Assembly. We must also ensure that this text is not anti-American. The initiatives of recent years have shown the Americans that this is not the case, but I believe that this point should continue to be stressed. The American administration is aware that there is now progress in this direction on the part of the whole of humanity and it is really a matter of widening the sphere of human rights. Finally, it is all the more significant that in the last few hours, Mr Öçalan has been sentenced to death. This is therefore another manifestation of the need to definitively legislate, at United Nations level, for the abolition of the death penalty."@en1

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