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". – I can agree with practically everything that has been said in this debate. Moving forward on the human rights agenda is basically no different from any other activity in international politics. This has to be understood. What can be done in a given situation in a given case is part of the broader political progress or lack of progress made at any given time. The reality is that we do not have a separate entity in international society in which we can discuss human rights only on their own merit. Politics never goes away. It is always part of this discussion, especially when we talk about it internationally. For that reason we have to equip ourselves with something one might call robust pragmatism in order to be strong enough to stay on course and pragmatic enough to know whether or not we can make headway in a given case.
As for Zimbabwe, I can inform Parliament that we are now positioning the first electoral observers. We already have people in Harare who are being groomed to act as electoral observers. We will thus have ten to fifteen people who will form the long-term team of observers. I am also pleased to inform Parliament that Mr Pierre Schori will head the observation team for Europe during the election in Zimbabwe.
We should not take it for granted that we will be able to carry out effective electoral observation. We are giving priority to positioning ourselves so that we can do this as well as possible and with as broad a representation as possible from Europe in our team as a whole. But the main priority is to actually do our work and not be marginalised by some tactical or political manoeuvre. Without this observation work the basis for us to give a final judgment will not be satisfactory. Nothing about Zimbabwe is easy. I am not in a position to express optimism or pessimism, but so far we are doing our utmost to ensure that we will be there with an effective team to observe the elections next month."@en1
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