Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-08-Speech-2-340"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Maria Martens2
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lpv:translated text	". Mr President, over the past year, the seventh and eighth meetings of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly took place in Addis Ababa and The Hague, respectively. Both were good meetings, but it was, of course, a particular delight for me, being Dutch, that the meeting in The Hague was so successful. My compliments to all those involved. I should like to draw your special attention to a few points. First of all, relations with Zimbabwe. In The Hague, we once again managed to prevent the blacklisted representatives of Zimbabwe from attending the meeting. In Zimbabwe, human rights are being flagrantly violated and freedom of expression, association and assembly are being increasingly curbed, something that the report reflects. In Europe, we have a list of people who are responsible for those abuses, and we have agreed that those people must be barred from meetings held in the EU. More than once, Zimbabwe has sent representatives who feature on this list all the same. It is a good thing that we once again managed to keep them away from the JPA. We must persevere in our stance in order to increase the pressure on Zimbabwe. I would also like to thank the ACP delegation for their support in this matter. Then there is the resolution on Darfur. The situation in Sudan is awful. It is the longest-running conflict in Africa, and, if the information is correct, 2 million people have now been killed and 4 million people are on the run. have, over the past few days, issued a report on the occasion of International Women’s Day in order to bring the issue of rape and violence against women once again to our attention. It happens, and that is bad enough, in all war zones, but nowhere on the scale as is happening in Sudan. These and other abuses were emphatically condemned in the resolution. It is mainly thanks to Mrs Hybášková that we managed to adopt the resolution without any dissenting votes, and that is quite a feat, considering the large number of African countries who were involved in this. I should like to congratulate her on this. The ACP is a special delegation in the European Parliament, because it is a joint assembly that aims to strengthen democracy, promote good governance and protect human rights. Moreover, its capacity to tackle difficult topics and enter into political dialogue in the right manner has grown in recent years. The value of this has once again been borne out. Congratulations to Mr Bowis for the report. I am looking forward to the forthcoming meeting in Mali."@en1
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