Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-04-27-Speech-3-027"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-04-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights in the world 2004 and the EU's policy2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050427.7.3-027"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-04-27-Speech-3-0282
lpv:speaker	lp:Véronique De Keyser2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; DROI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; IMCO (2004-07-21--2006-11-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; FEMM (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Parti Socialiste (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mrs Flautre, who is generally scathing in her comments, has congratulated the rapporteur. I would not dare do otherwise, therefore, and I thank him in my turn. I would, however, like to say that the report on human rights is a virtually impossible exercise. There are in fact at least three traps into which it can fall. The first is for there to be no consistency between one human rights report and the next. I would like to tell Mr Szymański we voted in favour of the right to reproductive health as a human right last year: I hope we will do the same this year. The second trap is that of double standards. I am, for example, amazed to find a whole paragraph on Morocco, which has made constructive efforts on human rights, but to find only one line on other countries that are blatantly violating human rights. It is the law of the genre. A third trap is perhaps lack of transparency. We have in fact compromised in some areas, and as they stand some paragraphs suggest we have been less critical of great powers than we would have liked. I will say no more about that; it is somewhat inevitable in an exercise like a human rights report. More seriously, I would like to say that it is clear that there are some paragraphs which my party will not accept, paragraph 78 in particular, which condemns the Council for lifting sanctions against Cuba. I would like to tell the Council that I welcome this act of openness. I do not think that economic sanctions have ever helped democracy; on the contrary, they have served to completely harm and weaken nations. There are therefore some paragraphs, some amendments to which my Group will be particularly sensitive and which will determine its vote at the end of the day. That has, however, nothing to do with the qualities of the rapporteur, whom I thank once again."@en1

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