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"Mr President, it is customary to congratulate rapporteurs in this House where we all try to outdo each other in being kind. This time, however, we really must express our admiration for the work Mr Coveney has done; he has listened very hard and worked meticulously to produce what really is a full, clear and fair report. We can all see that successfully appraising the human rights situation country by country is not an easy thing to achieve. I would therefore like to add my own sincere congratulations to all those that have been addressed to him.
This report contains a tremendous number of positive points and my Group is particularly pleased with the balance it achieves in the matter of respect for human rights in the fight against terrorism. That is a subject which I believe is attracting a lot of attention internationally, at European level and in this House, and what we are seeing today – I mean what has just been decided following the UN session – will, with the rapporteur’s help, enable us to make very significant progress in the matter. My group also welcomes the extension of civil and political rights to economic and social issues with an important chapter on the social responsibility of business.
When we consider the amendments tomorrow, I would like us also perhaps to recognise the right to development as an inalienable human right, as the UNDP’s work on the degradation of ecosystems and the effects of pollution on our ability, on a world scale, to achieve the Millennium goals invites us to do and as was stated in a United Nations declaration in 1986. The Johannesburg summit also reiterated the essential nature of respect for environmental and social standards and human rights. I will be inviting you to consider these questions tomorrow.
Having said that, I believe the most important thing about this report is probably the ability, an ability we can continue to develop in the years ahead, to analyse the European Union’s instruments for protecting and promoting human rights and democracy in the world. I believe that is an extremely important chapter. Everyone today can see to what extent the European Union’s credibility, people’s expectations of it and what it will become with the hoped-for adoption of the Constitution are focussed around the question of human rights and democracy, and I do not believe we will be able to get a European way of doing things accepted in dialogue, in credibility and in equity if we are incapable of making considerable progress internally, between our institutions. If we really want all our mechanisms to be monitored and evaluated, the European Parliament must be involved, and kept informed about, every action decided in accordance with the guidelines and with the structured human rights dialogues and be involved in all the measures taken by the Commission and the Council. Our policy will be more effective and more coherent if we have better interinstitutional dialogue."@en1
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