Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-03-Speech-2-054"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-06-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU-USA judicial cooperation agreements2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030603.2.2-054"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-06-03-Speech-2-0552
lpv:speaker	lp:Alexandros Alavanos2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-04-14)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-04-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2002-02-07--2004-04-14)3 unknown; Synaspismos tis Aristeras kai tis Proodou (1999-07-20--2004-04-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-04-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I wish to say that it is indeed infuriating that the Council is absent from a debate such as this, especially when the European Parliament had already given the Council advance warning during the previous Plenary. It would be good if the Commission and the Council were to pay attention when the European Parliament gives advance warning, especially on such important issues. Perhaps the Council's only justification for not being here would be if its President-in-Office were locked away somewhere reading the Amnesty International report for 2003, which tells us that the big threat to rights today are the measures being taken by the United States at global level on the pretext of 11 September in the aim of undermining and withdrawing citizens' democratic and other rights. The case we are examining now in connection with the agreements on judicial cooperation and extradition is an export from the United States of restrictions on rights, notably on the question of the death penalty. The United States are exporting them to us and we, with no shame whatsoever and, unfortunately, with a Greek Presidency, are importing them under these agreements. I should like to ask Commissioner Vitorino to give us his opinion. Commissioner, as long as you are here and are not yet Secretary General of ΝΑΤΟ, why in your opinion in Article 13, which refers to the question of a request for a person who may face the death penalty to be extradited, does the agreement read: ‘the request for extradition be denied’ by the European Union to the United States of America rather than ‘ be denied’? Why? Please explain it to us in terms we can understand."@en1
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