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"en.20051130.11.3-075"2
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"Madam President, I welcome this debate. On 12 September 2005, Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights held a hearing on Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, as has been pointed out by previous speakers. For the ill-informed it was an eye-opener as to current human rights abuses, restrictions of freedoms and political and religious repression, with different accounts coming from each country. This motion follows previous resolutions and strongly worded paragraphs of the annual report on human rights produced by Parliament last year. The motion calls on the authorities of all three countries to make progress in specific areas.
In relation to Cambodia, the motion calls on the authorities to engage in political and institutional reforms, to release political prisoners, to combat corruption, deforestation and displacement of people and to take measures to combat the sex tourism industry.
In relation to Laos, we call on the authorities to release political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, develop a multi-party system where all views and opinions can be taken into account, respect religious minorities and their rights and allow UN agencies unrestricted access to all parts of the country.
In relation to Vietnam, we call on the authorities to promote and to allow a multi-party system to reflect different viewpoints, to end all repression of religious minority groups such as the unified Buddhist church and to release Vietnamese political prisoners of conscience. At the same time, we recognise that there has been some movement in this area. We also call for the safe repatriation under the Cambodia/Vietnam UNHCR agreement.
These are not unreasonable requests to make. They are consistent with the value system of the EU in relation to the promotion of human rights and democracy. The EU has formal ties with all three countries, with cooperation agreements on Cambodia and Laos in 1997 and Vietnam in 1995. All of these agreements have human rights clauses. They should mean something and there should be consequences if they are repeatedly breached."@en1
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