Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-24-Speech-3-090"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-04-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020424.4.3-090"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-24-Speech-3-0912
lpv:speaker	lp:Efstratios Korakas2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, to my mind, the European Union's self-appointed position as the guardian of human rights is sheer hypocrisy. As far as I can see, we have as many violations in the European Union itself, such as violations of the right to work, to housing and to free education, health and welfare, as in other countries which the European Union supports, such as Turkey, Israel and others. The European Union is also responsible, as a result of its policy, for the starvation and misery in the rest of the world. I too have just returned from Palestine; how, if not as a blatant violation of human rights, are we to describe the ultra-modern Israeli weapons turned on the unarmed people of Palestine who, in the final analysis, are fighting for the whole of mankind? Faced with this situation, the European Union has kept to its policy of sitting squarely on the fence between oppressor and oppressed and has confined itself to making statements and calling on beleaguered President Arafat to stop the intifada, which it calls terrorism, in order to stop the Israeli attacks. In addition, those here in the House calling for the same thing, Mr President, do not even have the courtesy to explain to us with what right Israel is holding the elected president of a nation prisoner, with what right it is going about arresting people, including members of the Palestinian assembly such as Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who has distinguished himself in his untiring efforts to bring about peace, with what right it is killing and laying waste. One thing you can be sure of is that Israel does not want peace. Its objective is to wipe out an entire nation and implement the chauvinist expansionist plans of its most extreme elements..."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The President cut the speaker off)"1

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