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I should like to congratulate Mr Coveney on this annual report and on the new system that he has introduced.
The final resolution places demands on the Communist regime in Cuba and vehemently condemns terrorism. These are areas that are especially close to my heart and that I have been pursuing as human rights coordinator for the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats. I was pleased to see that attempts on the part of the communist and socialist left to remove the forthright condemnation of the Cuban dictatorship were defeated.
Other areas that I have been following with concern, such as the trafficking in human beings and human organs, were also addressed appropriately in this resolution, and that is something new and positive.
I deplore the Left’s manipulative strategy to present the right to abortion as a fundamental human right. They went as far as to block the vote on an oral amendment by the rapporteur that contained the following lines: ‘recognises the impact of mass rape in making women and girls vulnerable to contracting HIV/AIDS; calls on the EU to guarantee that all women and girls who are the victims of rape will have access to full medical care’. After this oral amendment was rejected, all of the amendments tabled in this House by the Left were adopted, yet the Left abstained from the final overall vote, which is evidence of their intention to manipulate an important overview of human rights to their own ends."@en1
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