Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-11-18-Speech-4-132"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-11-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (Rule 115)2
dcterms:Language	"cs"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041118.11.4-132"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-11-18-Speech-4-1332
lpv:speaker	lp:Jaromír Kohlíček2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 member; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 member; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-03-14)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (2004-09-21--2007-03-13)3,3 substitute; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Ladies and gentlemen, if we are to discuss the state of human rights in Eritrea, we must first ask ourselves what kind of standard it can be compared against. We frequently talk of universal human rights, but I am not sure that our European understanding of such rights can always be applied in all countries throughout the world and in all cultural contexts. In spite of this, however, it must be said that for a number of years now we have witnessed attempts by some of the most reactionary regimes to use their support to promote the development of hotbeds of obscurantism and militant Islam in certain areas of the world, as well as to bring about a military solution to border disputes, for example in the case of Eritrea and Ethiopia. Although attempts were made in the past to establish democratic principles and peaceful cooperation with its neighbours, the situation in Eritrea has now become a great deal more complex, and there is a gradual deterioration in the majority of fields monitored by international organisations. Poor infrastructure, low levels of literacy among the population, a slow rate of economic growth and religious obscurantism are culminating in moves to draft more young people into the armed forces, with the response to such moves being attempts to leave the country. Whatever standards of human rights we apply, such a state of affairs cannot be passed over in silence. We must not stand idly by while members of the Eritrean parliament and foreign journalists are held in prison without any kind of formal charge, while freedoms laid down in Eritrea’s Constitution are violated, and while the fundamental requirements of international human rights conventions are contravened. We must take action in accordance with Article 96 of the Cotonou Agreement, as already referred to by Commissioner Figel’. The motion for a resolution which has been tabled is a first step on the path towards change, as well as an attempt to help find a resolution to what appears to be a dead-end situation in one of the world’s poorest countries. I therefore call on you to vote in favour of this resolution."@en1

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