Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-04-21-Speech-3-326"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-04-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Democracy, rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms in third countries2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040421.13.3-326"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-04-21-Speech-3-3272
lpv:speaker	lp:Maj Britt Theorin2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialdemokratiska arbetarepartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (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
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I think we must welcome Mr Fernández Martín’s report and be glad that responsibility for the report was finally given to the Committee on Development and Cooperation. The majority of the countries to which the regulation applies are in reality developing countries. We have worked hard to achieve a compromise in the committee that could be accepted by the Council and the Commission, as well as by Parliament. We understand the importance of getting this report through at first reading. We therefore support the rapporteur’s request to vote against the third amendment by the Committee on Budgets, which is unacceptable to the Council. Nonetheless, we have made some demands of the Commission to ensure that Parliament is able to follow the work on the regulation more effectively. By asking the Commission to produce an annual report setting out programming for the coming year by region and by sector, we wish considerably to increase the transparency of the work on the regulation. Moreover, reporting back to Parliament will mean our better understanding where implementation is most effective. We are pleased that the Commission has accepted some of our most important changes. It is important that the decisions taken on a human rights basis reflect the EU’s commitments to support democracy, international law and, naturally, respect for human rights. The additional proposals initially tabled were aimed at ensuring that our decisions on human rights were based upon our own anxiety concerning the security of the European Union. That would have been a tragic mistake. We do need to protect ourselves, especially against terrorist threats, but the present trend espoused even by a number of senior figures in the EU, whereby aid should be tailored in such a way as to meet our security needs, is a very dangerous road to go down and a principle that should not be established. We must protect human dignity when it comes to our measures concerning human rights, cooperation and the development of aid and ensure that the primary focus of these measures is always the consolidation of democracy, international law and human rights and the eradication of poverty. Finally, this is the last time that I too am speaking in this House. I shall be leaving it after ten years, and I wish to thank you for your very constructive cooperation."@en1

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