Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-01-Speech-3-042"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-12-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Ukraine2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041201.10.3-042"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-12-01-Speech-3-0432
lpv:speaker	lp:Alessandro Battilocchio2
lpv:spokenAs	member; NA (2004-07-20--2007-10-23)3 member; DEVE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PETI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Partito Socialista Nuovo PSI (2004-07-20--2008-02-18)3 substitute; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I speak on behalf of the Italian Socialist Party. The peaceful orange revolution currently under way in Kiev has a great deal in common with the ‘rose revolution’ which brought President Saakashvili to power in Georgia exactly one year ago. He was then democratically elected by a huge majority in January 2004. Mr Saakashvili, whom I was able to meet in Tbilisi a few days ago, is leading Georgia towards a path of renewal, growth and development, within a healthy, pluralist context of democracy. Back in November 2003, however, the people’s verdict had been overturned through the vote-rigging arranged by ex-President Eduard Shevardnadze, who was then driven out by a popular uprising, which, apart from anything else, took place without bloodshed. Today the story is being repeated and, as all the international observers, including those from Europe, have confirmed, the Ukrainian people’s decision has been blatantly altered and misrepresented through obvious, flagrant irregularities. Today the Ukrainian Parliament, the Rada, has passed a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Yanukovich. Although this action in itself is not binding from a legal point of view, it does have a great intrinsic symbolic and political value and confirms the success of the popular pressure that has been exerted in recent days. We must not allow Europe to remain deaf and dumb to all this. Let Europe make its voice heard in that country, which lies so close to our borders, so that the tensions there do not degenerate into civil war or an escalation of violence, and so that all those young people can at last be heard. The young citizens who courageously and proudly wave orange flags or Georgian flags demand and hope for a future of peace, justice, the rule of law, democracy and freedom – a new, different page of history. Let us here in Parliament raise a cry of solidarity with the demonstrators in Kiev: today we are all Ukrainians."@en1

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