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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-04-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020411.8.4-138"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-11-Speech-4-1392
lpv:speaker	lp:Olivier Dupuis2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; NA (2001-10-03--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Member States of ASEAN, south-east Asia and the Republic of Korea (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, my thanks first of all to Mr Nassauer, chairman of the delegation for relations with the Member States of ASEAN, and to Mr Posselt, Mr van den Berg, Mr Maaten, Mrs McKenna and Mr Corbett for having taken this initiative. I thank them all the more, because in our somewhat beleaguered position, we non-attached members find it practically impossible to table motions, which is why we particularly welcome initiatives such as this. Next Monday, in Geneva, at the Human Rights Commission, the leader of the Montagnard Foundation, Mr Kok Ksor, will speak for the first time in defence of the rights of his people. The situation is, I think, extremely serious, not just for the hill tribes but for the entire Vietnamese population. I have a number of reservations on points 4 and 5 of this resolution, because I think that Mr Poul Nielson’s overall concept of cooperation needs to be challenged. Helping the Vietnamese authorities fight poverty has not achieved anything, especially in terms of democratising Vietnam: there is the very serious problem of the hill tribes, but there is also the problem of freedom of worship for the Christian minorities and even for the Buddhist majority. The patriarch of the Unified Buddhist church, Thich Huyen Quang, has been incarcerated for the last twenty years, as has his number 2, Thich Quang Do, who has been incarcerated in his pagoda for several years now. Such is the situation in Vietnam. The European Parliament has stressed time and again that Poul Nielson’s policy has not brought about any improvements in Vietnam, despite massive funding from the Commission. I do not think that the inefficiency of Poul Nielson’s policy surprises any of us, but we do need to remind ourselves of it whenever we can. There are also long-standing ties with the Communist International in the region. Mr Hun Sen, whose history with the Khmer Rouge is often glossed over, clearly still has close allies in Hanoi, which explains this connivance in the hill tribes affair, which I think we have a duty to condemn."@en1

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