Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-19-Speech-3-161"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-11-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Outcome of the EU-Russia summit2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031119.6.3-161"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-11-19-Speech-3-1622
lpv:speaker	lp:Olivier Dupuis2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; NA (2001-10-03--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--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
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that none of us questions the strategic importance of the European Union-Russia relationship. What we are criticising – and our criticisms are directed at both the Council and the Commission, which have both been pressing ahead with the same policy – is an uncritical policy towards Russia, a thoroughly blind policy that does not see the decline in the freedom of the press, which does not see the decline in the independence of the judiciary – the case of Mr Khordokovsky is a clear example – a policy that pretends that a little country called Chechnya just does not exist. Has there not been a massacre in Chechnya? Two hundred and fifty thousand people – how often do we have to say this? – out of one million people equals extermination and something very close to genocide. This is not tolerable; it is not tolerable that the Commission has not had the courage to send its Commissioner for humanitarian aid to Chechnya and that Mr Prodi has not been there either. There is something I must say, and I hope Mr Antonione will pass it on to Mr Berlusconi: it is unacceptable that Mr Berlusconi should call that a myth, and I think many in this Parliament and in the European Union expect Mr Berlusconi to correct what he has said when he comes to this House during the next part-session in December. What is at stake is the dignity of the dead and of those who are still alive in Chechnya, and the dignity of this Parliament and of the whole European Union and its citizens. As for the future, we can do what we did for Yugoslavia: pretend that the Caucasus issue does not exist. The Chechnya problem is a colonial problem and must be resolved as such. What is happening in Chechnya is infinitely worse than what was done in Algeria and in so many other countries in Africa. The way forward, then, is for Chechnya to join the European Union, and for Georgia, which is another strategic part of the European Union, to join too. This should be the programme carried forward by the Commission and the Council."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1

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