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"The Moderate delegation has voted in favour of the resolution but wishes to emphasise certain problems we see with the wording. The resolution regards the world’s women as a homogeneous group, a fact we regard as very unfortunate, because the position of women varies very dramatically indeed from one country to the next.
The situation of women in the developing countries is confused with the situation of women in Europe, as if they were comparable problems. Problems such as rape in war, honour killings and genital mutilation cannot, as has been done in the resolution, be compared with issues relating to lifelong learning, the allocation of quotas and the number of months’ paternity leave. The resolution confuses issues that belong at EU level with those that are quite clearly national issues or, quite simply, matters to be decided by individuals.
We should have preferred it if the focus had been upon women in the developing countries, where they are in a very vulnerable situation. The wordings concerning the developing countries relate, to a large degree, to issues to which the EU should call attention in the Common Foreign and Security Policy and in aid policy. We should have liked the resolution to have stood up for men’s and women’s equal rights and the defence of human rights throughout the world."@en1
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