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"Colleagues, on 6 May Pim Fortuyn, a Dutch politician and candidate in this week's general election in the Netherlands was shot dead in Hilversum. The same day, on my own behalf and on behalf of this House, I condemned this murder unreservedly and expressed our profound solidarity with the Dutch people and with the victim's family, friends and colleagues.
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Freedom of expression is one of our most fundamental and cherished rights – a core value of our democracies. As democrats we defend the right of every person to participate in political life freely and to exercise his or her democratic right. That includes the right to express one's ideas, whether or not we like these ideas. That is precisely the basis of our democratic system.
In condemnation of this, and all acts of political violence whenever, wherever and by whomsoever they are perpetrated, I would like to ask you to observe one minute's silence.
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On behalf of the European Parliament I should also like to welcome the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is a laureate of the Sakharov Prize of this House in 1990 and a Nobel Prize laureate of 1991. She has always been a figurehead for the fight for democracy, freedom and human rights in her own country in particular. This release and her right to again lead her party political life is a significant step forward to the establishment of democracy in Burma. I hope it will soon be followed by the release of Burma's remaining political prisoners.
I heard the call of Aung San Suu Kyi last week for a European Union common policy on Burma. I expressed the hope on behalf of our House that this release will be followed by the development of such a policy in active cooperation with the European Parliament. We look forward to welcoming her in the not too distant future in this Chamber to take her place and to speak on her own behalf where, in the past, it was her husband and others who spoke so eloquently for her."@en1
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