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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-12-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Address by Mr Kim Dae Jung, President of the Republic of Korea2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011211.16.2-243"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-12-11-Speech-2-2442
lpv:speaker	lp:Elly Plooij-van Gorsel2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (2001-10-23--2002-01-14)3,3 vice-president; European Parliament (2001-10-23--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:translated text	"We now welcome to the European Parliament President Kim Dae Jung, a tireless defender of universal values such as peace, democracy and human rights. Mr President, we have great respect for you and for your country, whose economic progress and, more recently, political progress over the last ten years have made a great impression upon us. We are pleased to welcome you here today. You were elected President of the Republic of Korea at the end of 1997, and came to office in February 1998. These are the crowning achievements of your remarkable career as a fighter for democratic change. Since the beginning of the 1960s, you have fought for free elections, founded parties and pressure groups and, on several occasions, stood as a candidate at elections, in order to defend the basic values which inspired you throughout your life. On a personal level, you have suffered enormously from the initiatives you have taken. When living in exile at the beginning of the 1970s, you were abducted on successive occasions in Tokyo by the secret services, arrested on numerous occasions, subsequently imprisoned for having criticised an unfair Constitution. At the beginning of the 1980s, you were accused of treason and condemned to death. This sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. You lived in exile for a second time but, at the end of the 1980s, you were able to return to your country and worked to restore democracy to it. After having been elected President of the Republic of Korea, you continued to defend the values that underpinned your life and that we share. We all salute, in particular, the work that you have done to improve relations with North Korea. The list of international awards that you have received in recognition of your efforts is far too extensive to read out here. However, allow me to tell you how pleased we all were when you were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. Your past is a lesson in determination and perseverance, given the terrible difficulties that you have experienced and overcome. Your past has not only been decisive for your own country. It has had a genuine impact on the region as a whole and has served as an example for the whole world. I am very pleased to welcome you here today, Mr Kim Dae Jung, and I now invite you to address the House."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "President."1

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