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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-12-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Annual report on human rights2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991201.9.3-115"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-12-01-Speech-3-1162
lpv:speaker	lp:Eija-Riitta Korhola2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Suomen Kristillinen Liitto (1999-07-20--2001-05-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, coordination and consistency are essential to a policy on human rights. The Union should now be focusing on the effective implementation of agreements. Implementation should cover three important areas: the monitoring of human rights, the establishment of human rights and the structures of a policy on human rights. The EU must develop monitoring mechanisms to observe the human rights situation both within the EU and in third countries. Monitoring must lead to a comprehensive assessment of the situation with regard to human rights. That assessment must include an analysis of the human rights situation, a decision on measures to improve that situation, a programme to monitor the impact of the measures on the situation, an evaluation of their success and a public report on the assessment and its results. It is important that we report on the problems within the EU as effectively and openly as on those in third countries. In recent years, the EU has witnessed within its borders police violence, which has often been targeted against persons from outside the EU, cell deaths and discrimination against sexual minorities. The lack of protection for refugees is perhaps the biggest human rights problem within the EU. The Union policy on refugees, like that of the Member States, lags behind the standards we could expect from economically developed countries. Matters relating to refugees and asylum are for us primarily matters of security and control. The practice clearly contravenes the obligations of the Geneva Convention. The common EU strategy on Russia should emphasise the importance of human rights. Establishing human rights is one of the greatest challenges in the attempt to increase Russian prosperity and stability. The human rights situation in Russia today is alarming. The aims of security, stability and sustainable development associated with the northern dimension will only be of secondary importance if we neglect the issue of human rights. It is time we realised the European Parliament’s idea of a monitoring body to be set up within the Commission to promote an efficient human rights policy and report on questions relating to human rights. A respect for human rights and the protection of the rights of minorities are major requirements for accession to the Union. Taking criteria relating to human rights and minorities as serious conditions of membership would require that these criteria and the obligations of applicant countries towards their minorities be accorded the same status as other fundamental criteria in the negotiations on membership."@en1

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