Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-18-Speech-3-295"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-01-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Chechnya after the elections and civil society in Russia2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060118.22.3-295"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-01-18-Speech-3-2962
lpv:speaker	lp:Michał Tomasz Kamiński2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; INTA (2005-11-28--2006-02-14)3 member; AFET (2005-12-01--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-08-06)3 unknown; Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (2004-07-20--2007-08-06)3 vice-chair; UEN (2004-07-20--2007-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, today’s debate in the House exemplifies the democratic nature of this Parliament. I should like to thank previous speakers for their accurate and reliable assessment of the situation in Chechnya. Nonetheless, it must be stated quite clearly that although such a debate can be held here in the European Parliament, it cannot be held in Russia, because democracy as we in the West understand it does not currently exist in Russia. Moscow and Saint Petersburg are not on a war footing. If there is no democracy in those areas there will certainly be none in Grozny or the rest of Chechnya, where there is a war on. Mrs Ferrero-Waldner stated today that the European Union had been unable to send observers to monitor the elections in Chechnya because the conditions on the ground did not permit it. I should like to thank the Commissioner for her honesty. Nonetheless, I am bound to point out that if the conditions on the ground were such that it was impossible to guarantee the safety of any observers, how can we accept that the conditions were right for elections to be held in the first place? They simply were not. One of the reasons for this was that in terms of international law, Chechnya is an independent state under foreign occupation. I must emphasise this most strongly. The Chechen people have never freely expressed a desire to form part of the Russian Federation. Chechnya declared its independence and the whole world saw how Russian tanks rolled into the country in response to that declaration. Regardless of the political party we represent in this House, if we truly share the fundamental values such as democracy and the right to self-determination upon which our Community is based, we must send out an urgent appeal from Parliament calling for freedom for the Chechen people."@en1

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