Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-09-Speech-3-196"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-03-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Health workers detained in Libya2
dcterms:Language	"mt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050309.16.3-196"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-03-09-Speech-3-1972
lpv:speaker	lp:Joseph Muscat2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; IMCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Belarus (2004-09-22--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2008-09-30)3 unknown; Partit Laburista (2004-07-20--2008-09-30)3
lpv:translated text	"I do not think, Commissioner, that you need to be lectured about what needs to be done; I believe that you identified the right target when speaking about the strategy that needs to be used. Kindly allow me to say such things as a person living in a country – I live in Malta – which is Libya’s neighbour, just forty-five minutes away from their coast. In my opinion, as a person who visits Libya frequently – and who knows the Libyan mentality, as it is in these countries – the point, the key to the solution, is direct contact with the people, direct contact especially with the relatives of the victims. These people are experiencing a major tragedy. I pronounce it as a clear statement – I am against any death penalty, be it in Libya, in the United States or in any other country of the world. However, the key to everything is found in the victims’ relatives and the work that needs to be done in general, in my opinion, with regards to the Libyan health system, but in a particular manner, also socially and psychologically with these families. We have to remember that AIDS victims in certain countries – even, I believe, in Europe, but particularly in certain other countries – are highly stigmatised. That means these people have already experienced the death of a relative, in many cases their son or daughter, they have experienced a big shock, and believe, and I say unfairly, that it is these five persons that killed their children and are experiencing this stigma. Secondly, where a Court confirms these people’s guilt but changes their sentence, I believe that there has to be consideration of the idea, by both the Council as well as the Commission, of prisoner exchange, as long as the prisoners within the Member States of the European Union are willing, are ready, to serve their prison sentence in Libya. I think that this is part of the solution for the things that could happen."@en1

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