Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-26-Speech-4-036"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-02-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU policy towards South Caucusus2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040226.2.4-036"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-02-26-Speech-4-0372
lpv:speaker	lp:Olle Schmidt2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Japan (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 unknown; Folkpartiet liberalerna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr Gahrton has prepared a sound report on the countries of the South Caucasus. I entirely share his view that it is in the interests of Europe and the EU to associate the region more closely with Europe. There are positive signs but, as Mr Gahrton himself said, there are quite a few threatening clouds. In Azerbaijan, matters are heading in the wrong direction. A year ago, I met with the new, recently elected President, Ilham Aliev. In response to direct questions on electoral fraud that had by then already taken place, he flatly denied any such occurrences and referred to his own, and Azerbaijan’s, role in the Council of Europe. Following the autumn elections, we know Aliev’s game. Freedom of expression is crushed, and opponents are thrown into prison. If Azerbaijan is to become a genuine partner of the EU, the country must be fully democratised. A humanitarian disaster is taking place in the refugee camps, in which those driven out of Nagorno-Karabakh live in extreme poverty. I have myself visited a refugee camp, and I wish in particular to address Mr Patten and say that the EU has a big responsibility when it comes both to money and to putting pressure on the parties involved in the conflict. I think that Mr Gahrton’s report shows that we need a stronger EU in the international arena, especially if we are to be able to take vigorous action in the area immediately surrounding the EU."@en1

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