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Mr President, violations of human rights are an everyday occurrence in Belarus. The latest in the long list of such violations was the nationalistic hounding of Poles, culminating in the Union of Poles in Belarus being declared illegal and its activists persecuted.
There is a lot of ground to cover, but this does not mean that we should be content with a ‘softly softly’ approach. On the contrary, we should drive forward relentlessly in our dealings with Belarus. If we are not to revisit the issue of violations of human rights in Belarus on a weekly basis, a permanent rapporteur for Belarus on the Commission’s side is needed. So too is an effective method of funding the democratic forces, and it is hard to envisage how such support could be offered without a specific instrument devoted to human rights. This instrument should be as flexible, fast and effective as possible concerning the provision of support in unfavourable legal circumstances.
The fact that we are holding yet another debate on Belarus testifies to the weakness demonstrated by Parliament and the European Union in this regard. This is the fifth time Belarus has been on our agenda, yet we have still not succeeded in prioritising the issue and making it a condition of the development of good relations between the European Union and Russia. It is true that the European Commission has been promising more and more, but it is still dragging its feet and acting reluctantly, slowly and passively where Belarus is concerned. As a result, the European Union’s credibility in this area has been compromised.
I would simply like to point out that even the administrative procedures adopted by the quasi-grotesque regime in Minsk have proved more efficient and effective than ours in the case of radio broadcasts. Belarus is broadcasting to the European Union, but from our side there is nothing but a deafening silence. I should like to conclude with a more general observation, namely that Europe has cast itself in such a ridiculous light with regard to Belarus that it has rendered its declaration on the Union’s common foreign policy completely meaningless."@en1
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