Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-04-05-Speech-4-050"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-04-05"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010405.4.4-050"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-04-05-Speech-4-0512
lpv:speaker	lp:Renzo Imbeni2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; PES (2000-03-08--2004-07-19)3,3 vice-president; European Parliament (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3,3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3,3 member; 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)3,3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2000-10-10--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I do not know whether Mr Wim van Velzen is present in the Chamber. I would like him to hear my speech, but, in any case, I feel it necessary to inform you and all the Members that the comments made by Mr van Velzen about myself were unfounded. Mr van Velzen has criticised me twice in this House, in my absence. According to him, I was not consistent and correct in upholding human rights while I was in Cuba with Mr Wiebenga and Mrs Eriksson for a meeting of the Interparliamentary Union. I would like to say that, at the very moment when Mr van Velzen was making this point in this House – at about 5 p.m. on Monday in Strasbourg, which was 11 a.m. in Cuba – I was talking to Mr Elizardo Sánchez, the director of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, who, in the hall of his house, was showing me the photographs he had taken with José Maria Aznar, Felipe González and our fellow Member, Mário Soares. Moreover, together with Mr Sánchez were all the representatives of the Cuban opposition. Now, this is a fact, not empty words. The delegation of the European Parliament represented this institution correctly, meeting with all the organisations of the Cuban democratic opposition even though we were not bound to do so by duty. I am not asking Mr van Velzen to apologise because there is no need. I would like to thank all the Members, my group Chairman and Mr Seguro for what they said, but I am sure that there will be no need next time. Should I be criticised over human rights in the future, there will be no need for Mr Barón Crespo or Mr Seguro to take the floor because Mr Wim van Velzen will be the first to rise in this House. I repeat – he does not need to apologise – next time, he will be the one to defend me against any totally unfounded accusations or criticism."@en1
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