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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Pakistan2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991118.13.4-257"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-18-Speech-4-2582
lpv:speaker	lp:Jannis Sakellariou2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (1999-07-22--2001-01-17)3 member; PES (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 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, our colleagues have already spoken about the military coup. I should once again like to emphasise what Mr Duff and Mr Mann have said. For decades elected, but altogether corrupt governments and most recently that of Mr Nawaz Sharif, have allowed violations of human rights, slave labour, social disasters and a foreign debt that is out of control to be part of daily life in Pakistan and all this has led to the ruin of the country. The same governments supported the fundamentalist murderous regime of the Taliban in Afghanistan and represent a constant incalculable risk to peace in the region because they support and stir up terrorist activity in the border region of Kashmir against their Indian neighbours. Despite everything, we should not allow ourselves to consider the military coup as a possible alternative to the incompetence and corruption of an elected government. We condemn most strongly the military coup in Pakistan and urge those in power to restore the rule of law and constitutional order immediately by setting up a civil transitional government in accordance with a clear timetable to restore parliamentary legitimacy by holding elections. These should be the preconditions to be fulfilled before the Council signs the suspended Cooperation Agreement with Pakistan. The EU as a whole must adopt an unambiguous position towards Pakistan, which stresses that for us, democratic principles can neither be negotiable nor the subject of compromises and that any future would-be dictator must prevent such dreadful behaviour."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1

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