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"Mr President, the UN was quite right to express concern about violations of human rights in Syria. I fully support the European Parliament’s motion for a resolution calling on the Syrian authorities to release political prisoners held in that country. Their number includes several Syrian parliamentarians we consider to be our colleagues. Syria must be persuaded to ratify the convention banning the torture of prisoners. It is, however, difficult for me to support the proposal in the draft calling on Syria to guarantee that those arrested will be well treated. After all, we know that this refers to political prisoners, so we ought really to be insisting that no political prisoners are ever taken, and not condoning the fact and politely asking Syria not to be too cruel to them. It is essential for human rights and Syria’s respect for them to be a when it comes to the Union entering into an Association Agreement with Syria. It would be inconceivable for us to be associated with a country that held political prisoners and practised torture and other forms of anti-democratic repression, resulting in the persecution of religious minorities such as Jews or Christians."@en1
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