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) Mr President, fellow Members, the Greens, like several other groups, had tabled a motion for a resolution on Paraguay. As is customary in the House, we have tried to agree on a joint resolution. Unfortunately, we cannot put our names to it as it stands.
As you are aware, the situation in Paraguay is characterised not only by a revolutionary tendency in certain sections of the army but, more generally, by very serious human rights violations and the harsh suppression of popular movements. We have tried, in our resolution, to emphasise both these factors simultaneously. Given the very long history of Europe itself, you will be well aware that, in countries where human rights are not observed by a government, generally republican or democratic or claiming to be republican or democratic, this government runs the risk of a military coup d’état. In a way, governments get the coups d’état they deserve, and a weak democracy is vulnerable to military coups d’état.
The resolution before us simply pays tribute to the initiative used by another Southern Cone country to arrest the leader of a military coup d’état and extradite him to his country of origin. We welcome this initiative on the part of Brazil, but to say that and nothing more would mean framing a resolution on Brazil, not Paraguay. We can welcome the progress that Brazil is making on the road to democratic cooperation in the Southern Cone, but that does not make it a resolution on Paraguay.
We would have liked the issue of human rights as managed by the legally constituted government in Paraguay to be specifically taken into account. We would have liked the European Union to exploit the methods of democratic persuasion afforded due to the aid it provides to all the Southern Cone countries in order to encourage the legitimate government in Paraguay to show greater respect for human rights.
Unfortunately, in the current wording of the resolution, this is not the case, and we consequently prefer to vote against the joint motion for a resolution and, if necessary, maintain our own motion for a resolution."@en1
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