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The overview of human rights protection around the world portrayed in Mr Coveney’s report is, unfortunately, an accurate one. Looking at this report from our privileged situation, living in this part of the world, one inevitably feels a duty to take concerted and effective action to protect human rights (and to protect democracy, because, let us not forget, these two concepts are intrinsically linked; without democracy, there is no human rights protection).
It is impossible to cover every aspect of such a broad issue, but there is one aspect that I wish to bring to the fore. I am concerned at the fact that it is not clear to many European politicians – albeit not only European politicians – that terrorism is the greatest threat to our societies and that it is a threat to our citizens (I shall not point out that they are innocent citizens, because that would suggest that there could be some sort of justification even if they were not innocent), to our societies, to the model that those societies represent and to democracy itself.
Lastly, let this report send out a clear message that Europe will be resolute in promoting human rights and democracy."@en1
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