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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-02-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020207.10.4-173"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-02-07-Speech-4-1742
lpv:speaker	lp:Mihail Papayannakis2
lpv:spokenAs	chair; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Synaspismos tis Aristeras kai tis Proodou (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, military manoeuvres and Guantanamo analyses aside, mankind is on trial now, as are our willingness and ability to sustain a world in which the rules of law agreed a priori will prevail, because only then will we retain the moral and political right to judge everyone else who is indifferent to or tramples international rules of law underfoot, be they terrorists, the Taliban, anyone at all. The European Parliament cannot demand any less than what is being demanded by various legitimate voices in the United States, at the UN and even in the European Union. By Mr Powell himself, by Mr Robinson, even down to Mr Solana. The world cannot be governed by the law of the Far West, including Texas, or by the customs and habits of the town of Leeds. Those with the fastest guns and the slowest reflexes to ideals and institutions cannot take the law into their own hands. Because otherwise we shall end up, Madam President, with a world in which what we see is tragedy rather than cinema. Ladies and gentlemen, and I appeal here also to my fellow Members on the other side of the House, when we rally against the death penalty, we are not defending the wretched crimes of some murderer or rapist. We are defending ourselves, our perceptions and our culture. It is for the same reasons that we are calling for the prisoners at Guantanamo to be treated as required under current international law or even American law, which cannot of course be limited to members of the Taliban who are American nationals. This sort of discrimination is unacceptable even in the jungle."@en1

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