Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-05-15-Speech-4-147"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Freedom of expression and religion in Vietnam2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030515.9.4-147"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-05-15-Speech-4-1482
lpv:speaker	lp:Bas Belder2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (2002-09-25--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 unknown; ChristenUnie - Staatkundig Gereformeerde Parti (2002-03-18--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the United States (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in the opinion of the Communist government in Vietnam, the situation in the fertile Central Highlands is increasingly getting out of hand. After all, that is where the call for independence is louder. The Vietnamese Government itself is to blame for this last-ditch, political cry for help on the part of the original inhabitants of the Central Highlands, namely ethnic minorities. It is responsible for discrimination against indigenous peoples by the ethnic Vietnamese, the so-called Kinh. It is also responsible for land robbery by the Kinh at the expense of the ethnic minorities. In the Central Highlands, the Vietnamese Government is also adopting a repressive policy against officially unrecognised Protestant churches. This mainly concerns indigenous peoples of the Bana, the Ede and the Zarai. The security services are extremely active in those areas. Soldiers are also billeted with the villagers. I would therefore question what remains of personal freedom and of any religious freedom in the private sphere. Not for nothing have the Vietnamese authorities stationed senior party members from Hanoi, outsiders in other words, in the three Central Highlands provinces. I am certain that the European Union can do something about this oppressive, explosive situation. First of all, the Union should couple stringent, political conditions to the large sums of money it injects into Vietnamese government projects. In the final analysis, Hanoi has committed itself by international treaty to enforcement of the basic freedoms of expression, association and religion. In addition, following the example of the Dutch Government, for example, the European Commission should, via co-financing organisations, support projects which truly benefit the oppressed ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands. This is at present a major failing in European aid to Vietnam. The Vietnamese Government refuses to put indigenous peoples from the Dac Lac, Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces on an equal footing with the Kinh. It does not take them seriously, in other words. It is up to the European institutions to set an example which is worth imitating. Finally, Council and Commission, in order to have any impact, the European Union should, however, insist upon the Vietnamese authorities’ opening up the Central Highlands to foreign observers."@en1

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