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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I agree with the speech we have just heard. We too would have preferred a report that addressed the common core of the human rights culture stemming from the United Nations Universal declaration of Human Rights. This is the direction we should be taking rather than using these reports for any other purpose. I acknowledge that the report is better than the original version that was rejected in the parliamentary committee, but nevertheless, I wish to make some observations on my own behalf and on behalf of my group.
First of all, a few words on the Sakharov Prize and the three winners of this prize, who continue to be persecuted. The resolution lacks balance, with the explanatory statement citing three cases in Turkey, Burma and Cuba whereas paragraph 23 of the final resolution ignores the situation of Osvaldo Payá in Cuba. This must be corrected, otherwise we could be accused of memory loss and of bias.
Secondly, where terrorism is concerned, we have still not achieved a properly balanced approach. Above all, however, I wish to express my reservations as to the way in which the issue of reproductive health has been brought into this matter and especially as regards the link that is made between abortion and reproductive health – something with which I wholeheartedly disagree.
To quote only a few figures from the report, its explanatory statement claims that 100 abortions take place every minute and that 70 000 women die each year from unsafe abortions. I have done some calculations and this means that 52 560 children die in non-leap years and 52 700 in leap years, in addition to these 70 000 women. These are certainly worrying figures, but our slant on them is entirely different: we see them as confirming the right to life."@en1
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