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"Mr President, on behalf of myself and several other MEPs, while I fully respect the solemn nature of today’s formal sitting, I wish to make a point of order under Rule 19 out of concern for human rights given that the Colombian President’s visit today is restricted to his parliamentary address until a formal dinner with heads of political groups.
Bearing in mind that the Colombian Government’s own public defender reports one massacre for every day this year and that the Commission of Colombian Jurists attribute 78% to paramilitaries with the knowledge of the official Colombian forces, will you, as President of this Parliament, in your private talks ensure that you discuss issues of human rights. Will you in particular ask when the law passed in June this year requiring crimes against humanity committed by the Colombian military to be transferred to the jurisdiction of civil courts will actually be implemented. Will you ask why instances of forced disappearance, extrajudicial execution and sexual abuse have been excluded from that law. Will you find an appropriate way to report back to Parliament on the responses given.
I ask this in the spirit of successive resolutions on human rights in Colombia passed by this European Parliament and in support of brave human rights defenders working under the threat of violence and of death."@en1
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