Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-05-Speech-3-231"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-09-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Conclusions of the G8 meeting in Genoa2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010905.6.3-231"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-09-05-Speech-3-2322
lpv:speaker	lp:Marco Cappato2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Member States of ASEAN, South-east Asia and the Republic of Korea (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; TGI (1999-07-20--2001-10-02)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (2000-01-17--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, when it comes to political responses to globalisation, we ask you not to force us to choose between Genoa and Durban, between the G8 summit of the major democracies of the western world, the Genoa Summit, and the UN meeting in Durban. Of course, we will choose the Genoa Summit over international fora where it is the dictatorships of this world that have the majority and the decision-making power and whose final decisions are those of a racist conference, not a conference on racism. Otherwise, we would be saying we are dissatisfied with both the G8 method and the method of this European Union. We feel that the western democracies must relaunch the method of democracy and the rule of law, that they must attack rather than playing a defensive game and must relaunch the initiative of the globalisation of rights and democracy. Madam President-in-Office of the Council, if the European Union genuinely has the political will, it should not be possible, at this advanced stage in the process, for the statute of the International Criminal Court to still not have been ratified. It should not be possible for the universal moratorium on the death penalty not to have been approved by the UN. It is on these issues that the western democracies must fight back. On the subject of the G8, these summits must be made public. It is not a question of coopting representatives of NGOs or representatives of the poorest countries. It is a question of involving the parliaments and all the citizens, broadcasting the debates on these issues to them live via audiovisual communications and the Internet, opening the doors of these international summits to all citizens and revitalising the democratic model and the rule of law. This, I believe, is the way to improve the G8 summits and this European Union, and it is the alternative to satisfying those who call for institutions in which the worst dictatorships in the world have the right of veto to be at the central controls of globalisation."@en1

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