Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-11-14-Speech-1-116"
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"Mr President, last Friday Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, ordered the highest level enquiry into the leaks to the Washington Post and Human Rights Watch. Clearly the United States Government believes there is some veracity in these allegations.
Today the Commissioner has, on the one hand, told us that the Copenhagen criteria might have been breached by Romania and that Article 6 may be being breached by Poland, but we already knew that. The Commissioner has come here today and told us that there is no evidence of these breaches. Well, both Poland and Romania issued official government-level denials last week, so we knew that. We asked the Commission to investigate the leak that the United States itself is concerned about – the highest level leak to the most credible of sources.
newspaper and other bodies are repeating these allegations. These are not radical newspapers or non-credible organisations.
Mr Lambrinidis said we already knew that the CIA operated black sites and torture centres in other parts of the world. We want to know if it is happening in the European Union. We want to know if it is happening in the candidate countries. As you said, Commissioner, it is the most serious breach of treaty obligations. You are not investigating it. We need an investigation which brings credibility to this House so that we can leave this debate knowing whether this is true or false."@en1
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