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"en.20040401.3.4-169"2
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"I have abstained in the final vote. The report was adopted by 211 votes to 84, with 46 abstentions.
Turkey must revoke its 30-year occupation of Cyprus and acknowledge the genocide of the Christian minorities of Armenians and Syrian-Assyrian-Chaldeans in 1915-1918, which cost 1.5 million people their lives.
The EU as a proponent of peace is undermined if Turkey is allowed to enter into negotiations regarding EU membership in a situation in which the country continues to be an occupying power in the northern part of the new EU member, Cyprus. EU Member States do not occupy one another.
Historic blunders must be acknowledged in order to alleviate the suffering and sorrow of the minorities affected. Only thus can we embrace a new future.
Germany would never have been considered a democracy or been able to become an EU member if it had denied the Holocaust, the genocide of the Jews, during the Second World War. Turkey has everything to learn from this."@en1
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