Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-02-17-Speech-4-179"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-02-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000217.8.4-179"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-02-17-Speech-4-1802
lpv:speaker	lp:Johan Van Hecke2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Christelijke Volkspartij (1999-07-20--2001-09-30)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2002-09-17)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the American leaders do not seem to have learnt a great deal from the criticism of how they treated the Indians and other indigenous peoples. We have to admit that our European sense of responsibility is no more developed in this respect. Once again, an indigenous people’s right of existence is being threatened. Once again, the individuality, dignity and health of a people are being sacrificed to the higher economic interest. Once again, we are losing a piece of our planet’s cultural and ecological heritage, despite the many treaties and resolutions on human rights, on the protection of minorities, rights of indigenous peoples, etc., which have already been ratified. If tradition and culture have to make way for economic imperatives at all, we should at least give sufficient attention to the reception and reintegration of the peoples concerned. But if we are to believe the environmental movements, even this is vain hope. There are hardly any reintegration programmes for people who have been relocated to the so-called New Lands. It very much remains to be seen whether these New Lands will be safe in terms of public health. It is of key importance that the American authorities provide greater clarity regarding the way in which they are trying to offer these families a dignified alternative in keeping with a traditional way of life. It is also important that a debate is held where the long-term effects of mining in this region are discussed and weighed up in economic, ecological and social terms. The credibility of the industrialised north is at stake. Indeed, what right do we have to demand of developing countries that they give their minorities a voice, that they protect their valuable natural areas and that they respect human rights, if it transpires that we are unable to meet these demands in our own countries?"@en1

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