Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-01-19-Speech-3-034"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-01-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Action programme of the Portuguese Presidency including the situation in Angola2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20000119.2.3-034"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-19-Speech-3-0352
lpv:speaker	lp:Cecilia Malmström2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Folkpartiet liberalerna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, the Portuguese Presidency certainly has a great deal to do during the spring, especially when it comes to work on the Intergovernmental Conference and enlargement of the Union. It cannot have escaped you that this Parliament wants to see an extended agenda with appreciable institutional reforms in the interests of a more efficient and democratic EU. We can talk a great deal and at length about this. I want, however, to take up another question which, for some unfathomable reason, ended up at this point on the agenda. I know that it is an urgent matter for Portugal, and it is a source of considerable disquiet for my Group, the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party. We look with dismay at the deterioration of the situation in Angola. With growing concern, we have seen how the UNITA guerrillas are stepping up their military activities and indiscriminately attacking civilians, most recently through the massacre of over a hundred civilians in Bié province. We also look with great alarm at the way in which freedom of expression in the country is being restricted. At least twenty journalists were arrested last year, in spite of the fact that the regime in Angola had given an assurance that it respected the freedom of the press. There are a number of individual journalists who, on what are dubious grounds to say the least, are waiting to be tried, accused of slander by the president. We hope that they are able to obtain open, fair and prompt trials. The people of Angola have suffered for far too long from this hopeless civil war which has led to thousands of people being killed and maimed and becoming undernourished and to more than two million people being made homeless. For the civilian population, the situation has become an emergency. The EU has an historic commitment to Angola and is a great provider of aid. It is high time that the EU joined with the UN in increasing pressure upon Savimbi to resume the collapsed peace negotiations, and also in more firmly impressing upon the regime that they must stop behaving like vandals and respect freedom of expression and human rights. We Liberals assume that these issues will be given high priority in connection with Portugal’s work on the new partnership between the EU and Africa."@en1

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