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Mr President, the subcommittee decided this year to change the structure of the annual report on human rights. Thus, we will no longer have an assessment of the situation in countries, but a report on the Commission's, the Council's and Parliament's implementation of the EU instruments regarding the promotion of human rights and democracy. We achieved this result despite the difficulties involved. We can congratulate the rapporteur and the political groups.
Parliament’s role consists in guiding, monitoring and assessing the policy of the Council and of the Commission. That is why it is crucial that Parliament continues to draft its own report. If we had to draft a report with the input of three different parties for example, we could not criticise a Member State's action – which we can take the liberty of doing with the current report – because all that that Member State would have to do is to veto it. The amendment to Article 8 that we have tabled is along these lines.
Mr Howitt’s report presents a number of interesting and innovative proposals concerning the mechanisms for promoting human rights. The report specifically calls for qualified majority voting within the Council and for possible restrictive measures against a third country. It logically follows on from the report adopted by Parliament: the Agnoletto report.
The report also proposes to ensure that the United Nations Commission for Human Rights, which has recently been set up, is not chaired by a State that is responsible for human rights violations. Furthermore, it proposes to implement a system aimed at keeping MEPs regularly informed of the actions carried out by the Council and the Commission. The report also stresses the need for cross-cutting human rights policies to be drafted within Parliament.
It is in this spirit that the subcommittee proposed to allow the delegations to put forward candidates for the Sakharov Prize. The report refers to the violations of rights, or forms of intolerance, that are practised in certain Member States, to the use of torture, to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or to the banishment of people to countries that use torture, to the use of diplomatic assurances and to extraordinary rendition.
That is why we must establish a close link between the European Union's internal and external policies and perhaps contemplate having just one European Parliament report on human rights, drafted together with the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, as the issues related to asylum and immigration require.
As such, I reject paragraph 97, which in some ways supports the implementation of the pilot Regional Protection Programmes. The Commission plans to implement one of these initial programmes in Belarus, a country responsible for numerous human rights violations, which maintains no diplomatic relationship with the Union and which offers no guarantee regarding the protection of migrants. These programmes do not seem appropriate to me."@en1
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