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I am voting in favour of this report, primarily because it is a further demonstration that East Timor is recognised as a fully-fledged State.
I understand the need to re-examine the list of third countries subject to visa requirements, due to the necessary and urgent fight against crime and illegal immigration, I welcome the possibility of reassessing the impact of making visas mandatory, particularly with regard to journeys undertaken for business, leisure and research purposes.
Going now into the most widely debated point, it is clear, given the Member States’ answers to the questionnaire published by the Commission, that transferring Ecuador to the permanent list of countries on Annex I of Regulation (EC) Noº539/2001 is justified by the concerns expressed about illegal immigration, trafficking in human beings, regional coherence and public order. The Ecuadorian Government’s concern at the legislative change we are discussing is understandable, but we cannot minimise the dissuasive effect that experience has proved necessary to step up. In fact, the human tragedy of being uprooted, of being in an illegal situation and of lacking the means to survive has, with the implementation of this amendment, better possibilities of being avoided upstream, thereby ending the particular attraction that an Ecuadorean passport holds for forgers and counterfeiters."@en1
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