Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-28-Speech-3-365"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-09-28"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Belarus2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050928.26.3-365"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-28-Speech-3-3662
lpv:speaker	lp:Bernd Posselt2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; DROI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; CULT (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern e.V. (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, this House has already occupied itself with Belarus repeatedly in the past, but it was only a small minority that did so: Mrs Schroedter, my colleague Mr Gahler and a few others. I am pleased that we are now working actively on this important issue. This is due to our Polish fellow Members, in particular, and I should like to thank them explicitly for this. It shows that history has an impact. There have been negative, nationalistic eras in history, but also repeated positive examples of coexistence. One such example was the coexistence of Poles, Lithuanians and Belarussians in a federation in the Middle Ages. That was Europe in miniature, and that Europe has repercussions today, in that we and our Polish fellow Members are all supporting not just the Polish minority in Belarus, but the Belarussian people as a whole; a people which is suffering oppression on a massive scale and which is unfortunately also threatened with attempts to restore the Soviet Union in one form or another. Such attempts are absurd and doomed to failure but, as we know, these ideas are being toyed with further east. It is in the fundamental interests of the European Union, therefore, to give our neighbour Belarus and its people and civil society, much greater support than we have been doing and, in particular, to ensure that media freedom is pushed through. I should also like to criticise in no uncertain terms the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, which broadcasts its programmes in that important European country in Russian: that is to say, in the language of the colonial power that oppressed Belarus for many years and shares responsibility for the situation now prevailing there. It is the right of the Belarussian people to be respected as a unique European culture, and this should also be reflected in the media promoted by the European Union. This culture forms an important part of the community of the European peoples."@en1

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