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Ladies and gentlemen, if I may, I should like to ask the Commissioner, in connection with the resolution on the situation in Ethiopia, whether the European Commission, or any other aid donor, has suspended aid to Eritrea following the latter’s flight ban on UN helicopters monitoring the situation on the border between the two countries. This ban is a gross violation of the terms of the truce, and it would only be sensible to take clear action on this matter. I realise that Ethiopia, all valid criticism notwithstanding, has made more progress towards what we call democracy than its rival in East Africa, but I cannot help but wonder why the authors of this resolution have not called for talks to be held with the descendants of the dynasty that previously ruled the country, and for the restitution of the property of this dynasty and of the old hereditary aristocracy. It would be only logical to do so, in view of the fact that we have adopted resolutions today calling for the future EU Member States to make such restitution.
Today we have adopted resolutions that call for restitution, but I would ask whether this is not a clear-cut case of double standards. We are unyielding in our calls for restitution only where Bulgaria and Romania are concerned. We do not make similar calls in the case of Ethiopia, since it would be all too obvious that they are pointless. I support the resolutions, but I am astonished that neither the current head of the Imperial Family of Ethiopia or even President Putin will be asked to appear before the European Parliament, even though His Holiness the Dalai Lama was called on to do so in the resolution on Tibet. I am sure that it is only me that thinks that the European Parliament may well be applying double standards. Incidentally, I should like to ask the Commissioner what the Commission’s response is to the recent adoption by members of the Australian Parliament of a law which curtails civil liberties and which
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