Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-13-Speech-2-186"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-06-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights in Tunisia (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060613.25.2-186"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-06-13-Speech-2-1872
lpv:speaker	lp:Vittorio Agnoletto2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; DROI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; INTA (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Partito della Rifondazione Comunista - Sinistra Europea (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the violation of human rights in Tunisia has now taken a shocking turn. The Tunisian Government has prevented the Tunisian League for Human Rights from holding its congress by deploying police and secret services. That is unacceptable. I must point out that the Tunisian league is an integral part of the International League for Human Rights, which is a key partner in discussions with EU institutions. Not only did the police physically prevent the meeting from taking place, but they also mistreated our fellow Member Mrs Flautre, to whom I offer my full personal solidarity and that of our parliamentary group as a whole. I should also like to extend our solidarity to Mr Mokhtar Trifi, the president of the Tunisian League for Human Rights, and all his colleagues. I must also point out that the funds that the Commission has allocated for projects to promote human rights remain blocked. The whole European Union is politically being held hostage by a government that has decided to trample on human rights. The time has come, therefore, to react. The European Commission must stop hiding behind the divisions within the Council of the European Union and behind the vetoes imposed by France in particular. I formally call for the Commission to start the procedures for calling an extraordinary meeting of the EU-Tunisia Association Council, in order to evaluate the state of political and civil liberties in the country. We must not be afraid to raise the additional possibility of suspending the EU-Tunisia Association Agreement on the basis of Article 2 thereof. I say this also in my capacity as rapporteur on the democratic clause, which was unanimously approved by the European Parliament and gives us full political legitimacy to call for suspension of the agreement and to ask for the Subcommittee on Human Rights to be urgently convened. The Commission and the Council, on the other hand, tell us that they intend to continue cowering to a despotic government that, from Tunis, thinks it can tell them what to do in Brussels. In that case, however, I do not think that Parliament will be on your side."@en1

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