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"Mr President, as the European Parliament is the chief guardian of human rights, it is necessary to examine what issues the report deemed important and worthy of consideration. I welcome the approval of the amendment which ensured that human rights issues in the Western Balkans were dealt with under a separate heading.
As the leader of the Hungarian Socialist delegation and as the president of the Intergroup for historical national minorities, constitutional regions and regional languages, I find a major shortcoming in the report’s treatment of national minority rights abuses which are not given due emphasis despite their importance. Although national minority rights abuses are observed in a few instances, in the case of the Western Balkans, they are not even mentioned. It is absurd to think that problems in Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina or Serbia can be settled without assuring national minority rights.
I see two fundamental problems: one of perception and approach, which simplifies national minority rights to human rights. Although we cannot speak of minority rights without human rights, the assurance of human rights in itself does not guarantee national minority rights, which require additional rights as well as special modes of practice and preferential treatment. Another predicament is that the EU lacks minority protection standards and an adequate monitoring system, as these are not part of the
. The position is paradoxical, since, in the case of the new Member States, the situation of national minorities was part of the 1994 Copenhagen political criteria for joining. Continuous monitoring of the national minority situation by the Union had a very positive effect on national minority issues in the new central European Member States. Why do not we do the same with regard to this report? Why is not there a separate section for national minorities among the thematic issues? I therefore suggest that a whole chapter is dedicated to national minorities in next year’s annual report."@en1
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