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"Mr President, Mr Winkler, Mr Rehn, ladies and gentlemen, a great deal has already been said in this debate, with some conflicting points made at times. I should therefore like to say to you straightaway that I do not wish to go back over the unacceptable events that have taken place and that are, moreover, taking place every day in Tunisia. I believe - and this is undoubtedly what a number of Members of this Parliament are waiting for - that we must go beyond the stage of condemning this kind of event, otherwise we will never stop having to do so.
What we want now – and several of us have said so – is action, that is to say practical decisions by the Council and the Commission regarding Tunisia on account of the incessant human rights violations of which the country is guilty. We have the means to put pressure on the Tunisian Government, let us use them!
In this regard, I am delighted by what I heard from the Council’s representative, namely that the sub-committee on human rights is being convened. This response is overdue, but, if it were able to be implemented, it would be a good thing. It has become urgent, as others have said, to convene the Association Council provided for by the agreement between the Union and Tunisia and to impose on the latter a binding schedule in which respect for human rights must be the central issue to be settled.
For fear of losing credibility on the international stage, the Union must, in my opinion, have the courage to make strong political decisions, and I join Mrs Flautre in calling for the suspension of all cooperation with Tunisia.
I will conclude, Mr President, by saying this: the resolution that we are going to vote on is targeted at the other European institutions, but it must also attract the attention of Europeans, many of whom sunbathe each year on the beaches of Djerba and of Tunisia in general, and remind them that, just a stone's throw from their beaches, are prisons in which democrats are rotting away."@en1
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