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"Mr President, I should like to express my displeasure with the final declaration of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly that was held on 27 March. Whilst I can of course appreciate the importance of a dialogue between the north and south of the Mediterranean, I am not convinced that a dialogue of that kind serves any purpose if it results in a unilateral admission of guilt, in this case by Europe. I do not think there is any other word for it when I read this final declaration. First of all, the Danish cartoons are condemned with an obligatory brief sentence, or clause, about violence against those cartoons. Although people are quite specific about those Danish cartoons, anything else is deliberately kept very vague and very general. There is talk of promoting democracy, but there is no reference anywhere to the discrimination systematically meted out to Christians or other minority groups in the Muslim world. We certainly do not have to go as far as Afghanistan to find examples of this. In Turkey, for example, a change of religion must be notified to the government. In that country, an Italian Catholic priest was recently murdered for what he represents. In that country, it is made virtually impossible to restore Christian buildings. I regret the fact that this has not been brought up for discussion."@en1
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