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"Mr President, it is good that the European Parliament should debate the issue of the prisoners in Guantánamo and adopt a resolution on such a bloody violation of international rights and international law.
This is not our first resolution on the subject and we have made some progress since the first one we approved in February 2002. That first text began with a macabre irony, reiterating the European Parliament’s firm solidarity with the United States in the fight against terrorism, with full respect for the rights and freedoms of the individual. Of course at that time it was all to justify American actions by blaming what was happening in Guantánamo on a lack of definitions and the need to update the Geneva Convention.
Looking back two and a half years later, that Resolution was a scandal. Fortunately, two years later, we adopted the Andreasen report’s Recommendation to the Council, which was much more appropriate.
The text proposed to us today may be politically correct, although it seems to me to be excessively sterile. We are still treating with kid gloves what is a radical denial of the rule of law and respect for the rules established by the international community for maintaining peace, and, above all, we fail to say that what we called for seven months ago has received nothing more than disdain and silence from the United States.
The aim of my speech is, therefore, to condemn the crime being committed in Guantánamo, and also to condemn the hypocrisy and double standards of many bodies of the European Union, including the European Parliament, when demands are being made and dialogue blocked with the country in which Guantánamo is an enclave and, at the same time, it is stated that together with the United States we form the same community of values.
This folly is demonstrated by what is happening in Guantánamo and if that is the community of values we share, you can count me out. My community of values, the community of values I fought for in Spain under 40 years of dictatorship promoted and sustained by Washington, is something else. It is a different community of values, which many of us believe in: quite simply the one enshrined in the European Constitution."@en1
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