Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-12-16-Speech-4-127"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-12-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Indonesia2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991216.5.4-127"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-12-16-Speech-4-1282
lpv:speaker	lp:Patricia McKENNA2
lpv:spoken text	"Like other speakers, I would like to support the call for the arms embargo to remain. As has been said already, it would be completely unacceptable that the arms embargo be lifted, especially in the light of the fact that the Indonesian military have failed to disarm. We should send out a signal that what they are doing is unacceptable. The only justification for lifting the arms embargo would be in the interests of profit. Many Member States of the European Union have a lot to answer for as regards their own support in the past for the Indonesian authority while it was oppressing the people of East Timor, and also for the fact that these countries and their arms manufacturing firms have made huge profits at the expense of innocent lives and the wellbeing of people and the right of people to live freely without oppression and human rights abuses. What is happening in East Timor as regards the aid workers is unacceptable. What the Indonesian authorities are doing there has to be challenged. As Mrs Lynne has already said, it is not acceptable that the aid workers do not have access to the camps where people are dying. We stood idly by for too long after the referendum. We should have done something long before. The signal was already there. Despite our past failure to ensure that people were not killed, the onus is now on us to ensure that in future no message of support goes out to the Indonesian authorities as it stands. They are showing contempt for the wish and will of the international community as regards the right of people to live in peace, the right of people not to be oppressed, the right of people not to be killed with weapons made by western countries. If China is going to supply weapons to Indonesia that does not justify the European Union lifting its arms embargo. Two wrongs do not make a right. What we should also be doing is challenging the fact that China may in fact provide arms. This is also unacceptable. China gets away with a huge amount of wrong-doing and it is about time we stood up to them as well. A clear signal has to go out to the Indonesian authorities that we are no longer going to accept their contempt for the wish of the international community for human rights and peace."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PECH (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Green Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Member States of ASEAN, South-east Asia and the Republic of Korea (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"McKenna (Greens/ALE )."1

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