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"Two reports, one on human rights in the world (the Wuori report) and one on fundamental rights in the European Union (the Cornillet report), were debated by the House today. These are two provocative texts, both in what they say (mainly in the Wuori report) and in what they fail to say (mainly in the Cornillet report).
The Wuori report supports the imperialist aspect of the European Union right from the outset saying, just so there can be no doubt, that "the principle of national sovereignty should not deny the ΕU the right to seek to exert influence – and possibly to intervene – with a view to halting gross and systematic violations of human rights". The peoples of the Balkans and of other regions in the world have paid and are still paying dearly for this ‘welcome’ mission by the ΕU. Thousands dead, even more poisoned by depleted uranium bombs, the FYROM hostage to ‘invincible’ Albanian extremists and protectorates across which European monopolies and their political backers are scattered. The disgraceful manner in which former President Milosevic was recently abducted, in direct defiance both of the constitutional jurisdiction of his country and its president, and handed over to the opportunistic International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague are eloquent examples of how the EU thinks human rights should be defended. However, the report goes further still, calling for new international criminal tribunals to be set up on Chechnya, East Timor and Iraq.
The ‘rapid-reaction mechanism’ for conflict prevention, that is, the euro-army, is seen as a basic tool within the framework of EU strategy and ‘smart sanctions’ rather than ‘blind sanctions’ are advocated. Without making any reference to the criminal consequences for the people of Iraq of the embargo to which the EU made a decisive contribution, it proposes in an excess of indifference that embargoes be imposed on other countries, using existing offences against human dignity as a pretext.
Despite busying itself with absolutely everything, the report does not conceal its preferences or selectiveness. For example, although it is directly critical of the Socialist government of Cuba for repressing ‘free’ journalism, it is particularly polite and cautious in the case of Turkey and Ukraine, even though it is a well-known fact that dozens of journalists are in prison in Turkey and that a journalist was murdered during the last round of elections in Ukraine.
Finally, the report's extended reference to Turkey does not contain a single word on the continuing hunger strike in Turkish jails or on the victims of Turkey's intransigence.
That is why the MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece voted against the report."@en1
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