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"Mr President, I agree with the view that this is the arduous story of an impossible report, which relates to an issue of increasing interest, both to the citizens and to the international bodies, and I would like to refer expressly to the position of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, in his report ‘In larger freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all’. This is the story of an impossible report, and we must express our gratitude to Mr Coveney, of course. It is impossible because it will always be unbalanced — it deals with the entire world — inconsistent — we only have to look at the paragraph on Venezuela for example — and furthermore, every year it is original — because we are not consolidating any of the positions this Parliament has adopted in previous reports.
Its usefulness is very relative, Mr President, but nevertheless, this report says some very important things. I believe we must redefine the European Parliament’s position on this report: many of the positions adopted by Parliament in other reports and resolutions have no connection whatsoever to our annual report on human rights. Our parliamentary work must focus mainly on making contributions to the report already produced by the Council and in that way it would be possible for us to influence the human rights situation in the world effectively.
Finally, and despite the fact that we have been through a very long and very complicated process of achieving a consensus amongst the political groups, I would like to address the Members on the right of this House to ask them to show consistency or responsibility, or if they like, simply compassion, and to support our position on women and girls who are raped, victims of abuse during situations of war or conflict, who need protection before and after they are attacked, and many of whom are made pregnant by their attackers and who must have access to voluntary termination of the pregnancy. Do you not think so, ladies and gentlemen?"@en1
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