Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-05-12-Speech-4-167"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-05-12"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20050512.24.4-167"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-05-12-Speech-4-1682
lpv:speaker	lp:Ioannis Varvitsiotis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CULT (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 unknown; Nea Dimokratia (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, the narrow strip of land on the west coast of Africa has been on the receiving end of criticism for many years now from the international community for systematically violating human rights and for irregularities in political governance. Although the political parties were formally legalised in 1991 and there has been a constitution since 1992, large international organisations, such as the United Nations, the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union, complain that there is systematic violation of human rights. Of course, violation of human rights is nothing new in this part of the world; it has been taking place for a great many years, for the 38-year long dictatorship of the then president, who was succeeded, when he died, by his son, who was elected as president in the recent elections. The outcome of the elections is of course the result of forgery. I do not think that there can be any doubt about that and, of course, it was the reason for the outbreak of unbridled violence, which has already cost over one hundred lives and forced eighteen and a half thousand refugees to flee to neighbouring counties. The European Union is rightly calling on all the political powers and institutions to demonstrate a sense of responsibility by showing full respect for human rights. Without fail, the twenty-two commitments which the Togo Government made and signed during consultations under Article 96 of the Cotonou Agreement on the question of respect for human rights must be honoured in every possible way. I support today's motion for a resolution which, among other things, accepts that action by all the European Member States of the European Union must be united and that statements must be avoided which are of no material help and merely give rise to reactions in the area."@en1

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