Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-02-07-Speech-4-181"

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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	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020207.10.4-181"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-02-07-Speech-4-1822
lpv:speaker	lp:Ana Palacio Vallelersundi2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2002-01-21--2002-02-24)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2002-07-09)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2002-07-09)3 chair; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-21--2002-07-09)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am speaking on behalf of Gerardo Galeote, signatory, together with General Morillon, of the PPE resolution on this issue. I have arrived late for this debate, but I have had time to listen to some speeches and I believe we should return to the basic issues. I believe there are three basic issues: firstly, terrorism is the great threat to the Rule of Law and to open and democratic societies today; secondly, the United States and Europe share the same vision, the same social organisation and, of course, the idea that respect for human rights is the very cement of our organisation. Thirdly, we must clearly state that, if the European Union flies any flag, it is the flag of respect for human rights. On this basis, we clearly can and must raise our voices and, rather than ask, say, because asking would mean believing that the prisoners in the Guantánamo base are not being treated in accordance with humanitarian principles and the truth is that all the indications suggest that they are. I am not going to enter into the argument about whether or not the Geneva Convention applies to them. We in the European Union must say that, in the case of any doubt, the principles of the Geneva Convention must be applied, but that the Geneva Convention itself lays down a legal basis to resolve all those issues which may endanger the security of the organisation or the prisoners themselves, while a judicial tribunal establishes whether they have the right to protection under the Geneva Convention or not. So far, Mr President, I have the impression that they are being treated absolutely correctly and that therefore this debate is unfocused. This has probably been an error in terms of European public opinion – if not in terms of American public opinion –, a public relations error, because the truth is that it has been the United States itself that has published these photos which so offend our sensibilities. We must clearly continue, and we will continue, to be vigilant, but always on the basis of the idea that we are fighting this war together."@en1

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