Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-15-Speech-4-134"

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dcterms:Date	"2001-02-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010215.4.4-134"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-02-15-Speech-4-1352
lpv:speaker	lp:Luís Queiró2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; PETI (1999-09-09--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; UEN (2000-09-21--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico (1999-09-30--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". I voted in favour of the report by Mr Soares on the Commission communication to the Council and the European Parliament ‘The European Union and Macau after 2000’ because it fully addresses the issue of what the European Union’s concerns and initiatives for Macau should be. The concerns arise basically from the need to preserve the freedoms and rights that already existed in this Special Administrative Region before the transfer of sovereignty, including religious freedom, which stem from the principle, so arduously negotiated by the Portuguese and Chinese authorities, of ‘one country, two systems’. The initiatives are the specific actions that the European Union can stimulate and promote for Macau with the aim of ensuring that the region maintains a democratic collective life, in which the human rights and individual freedoms of the Macanese are respected and in which prosperity and peace are valued. I wish to highlight three of these initiatives that are intended to preserve the autonomy and specific nature of Macau in relation to China. The first is the permanent monitoring of the implementation of the ‘one country, two systems’ principle. The second is the boosting of European investment in the SAR, as a corollary of active cooperation at all levels, and the third initiative concerns the call for the urgent appointment of a European Union representative in Macau, in order to stimulate relations between the two regions. Portugal governed Macau for four hundred years. We are not ashamed of our past in that region, in fact, quite the opposite. On the one hand, our presence fostered peaceful coexistence between the European and Chinese civilisations and, on the other, we left the Macanese a region with outstanding prospects for growth, with legislative, customs and judicial autonomy and where the rights and freedoms of every citizen are part of a legacy of civilisation that we have the duty to preserve."@en1

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