Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-07-Speech-3-151"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-09-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in the Middle East2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050907.18.3-151"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-07-Speech-3-1522
lpv:speaker	lp:Edward Mcmillan-scott2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, today is a happy day for Egypt because, for the first time in a generation, the Egyptian people have an opportunity to vote for a president and have a choice in that vote. I and some colleagues here in the Chamber who sought the release of one of the presidential candidates, Dr Ayman Noor, on 12 March will be particularly interested in the outcome, since it was our intention to visit him in prison, where he had been put by the Egyptian authorities, having declared his opposition to President Mubarak. It was in Cairo that the United States Secretary of State made an important statement on 22 June at the American University, where she declared that, in the Middle East, democracy was better than stability, overturning – as she put it – 60 years of American policy. There has been a degree of cynicism about this change of approach, but nevertheless it represents some sort of step forward in the relations between the United States and the Middle East. I believe that the European Union should try and reflect this shift in policy; not that democracy is better than stability, but that democracy and human rights are better than ‘business as usual’. One of the things that singles out the European Union’s approach to the Middle East is this conjunction of democracy and human rights. Obviously, I regret that the Commission is rather less than ambitious in its programmes of democratisation, and we hope to see that improve in the coming months. In addition, the European Parliament has a role to play, through the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, in particular. I believe that the parliamentary dimension of the Mediterranean is going to be of increasing importance. The next elections in Egypt will be the parliamentary elections and I hope that this House will agree that we should send a mission to Egypt for those elections, whether or not we are invited."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (2004-07-20--2007-01-15)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-20--2008-06-11)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2004-07-20--2007-01-15)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DROI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (2005-02-28--2007-03-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Edward McMillan-Scott (PPE-DE )."1

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