Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-09-Speech-2-235"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-03-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Rights of Guantanamo detainees2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040309.8.2-235"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-09-Speech-2-2362
lpv:speaker	lp:Marianne Eriksson2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-02-04--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Vänsterpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should like to congratulate Great Britain which will today welcome home five of the British citizens imprisoned at the naval base in Guantánamo Bay. According to the Swedish media, they will be arrested and interrogated when they land in Great Britain this evening. A further four Britons still in Guantánamo Bay will not be released, at least not yet. The Swedish detainee, Mehdi Ghezali, is also still there, with no immediate prospect of being released. That is how the situation has looked for more than two years. Where the Swedish citizen is concerned, the Swedish Government indicated at the beginning that the issue should be taken up with colleagues in the Council of the European Union. Here we are today, more than two years later, and this is as far as we have got. Like so many of these detainees, Mehdi Ghezali is young. The people concerned are young, and quite a few of them can even be regarded as children. Mehdi Ghezali’s family has heard nothing at all from him for 13 months. The officials from Sweden’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs who have been able to visit Mehdi Ghezali are not allowed to tell his family how he is. His lawyer has not been able to visit him, either. Commissioner Patten said that we must have a good relationship with the United States. Yes, we must have a good relationship with the United States, but we must also have good relationships with all other nations. I think that the old saying, ‘It takes two to tango’ is apposite in this case. The United States’s conduct on this issue does not, unfortunately, encourage much in the way of confidence. Of course we remember 11 September, but I also remember the pictures that, in spite of everything, have come out of the base at Guantánamo Bay, showing young people sitting handcuffed in cages. We are committed to human rights. We cannot just have debates at regular intervals about them. They must also mean something, and I therefore wish genuinely to thank Mr Andreasen for a very good report."@en1

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