Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-11-18-Speech-4-216"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human Rights2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991118.11.4-216"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-18-Speech-4-2172
lpv:speaker	lp:José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-neyra2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2002-03-07)3 substitute; AFCO (1999-09-01--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we are always complaining and regretting – rightly in my opinion – that the European Union does not speak with one voice on the international stage. Despite what our colleague has just said, I think that on this occasion there is more than sufficient reason to congratulate ourselves on the fact that the European Union has unanimously presented a resolution to the United Nations requesting a moratorium on the death penalty. It is sad that this initiative has not come to fruition and we hope that it will do so during this legislature. What I would like to say, Mr President, is that we have done this because we are convinced that everybody has the unalienable right to the respect for life and this right cannot go unrecognised or be violated. We have all seen the horrendous pictures of the last death sentence passed by the Florida Court and it will therefore not surprise any of you that the first person to appear in the text of the joint resolution should be the Spanish – and hence European Union – citizen, Joaquín José Martínez, whose sentence we ask to be reviewed and whose death sentence we ask to be suspended. In this case there has been a series of coincidences which have inspired an enthusiastic solidarity movement in our country in which the Government, all the political parties and the rest of society have taken part. I would like to say that there have been a whole series of irregularities in the trial and it appears that the defence lawyer has not fulfilled his commitments. However, Mr President, what is serious – and his case is serious enough as it is – are not the conditions of this trial, nor the fact that the United States holds the tragic and regrettable record for executing people who are later proved to be innocent. What is most tragic and regrettable is the fact that the death penalty exists at all. I therefore believe, Mr President, that as a European Parliament we have to show, in this and all other similar cases, a firm and resolute commitment to the right to life, as we have done in this joint resolution."@en1

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