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"Mr President, Mr Fava’s report is like a dried lemon – no matter how hard you squeeze it, hardly any juice comes out; even so, it is a better, more responsible and more restrained report than the one presented by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. While their report is blatantly ideological, ours is more political; Senator Marty’s report was based not on facts but on circumstantial evidence, but it still went much too far in accusations.
We are right to say that fighting terrorism is a priority for the international community. We are also right in saying that the end does not justify the means, that you cannot violate human rights just in order to defeat terrorism, but the main thing is that we respect hard facts. We cannot build up an indictment against whole countries based simply on conjecture, suspicion, circumstantial evidence or hunches.
This report is an element in the broader debate about relations between the EU and the USA, about boundaries for the legitimate fight against terrorism and about transatlantic cooperation. The report cannot be separated from the political context. We cannot pretend that in protecting human rights, we never use them as an ideological tool of anti-Americanism.
I call upon the committee to complete its mandate within the original 12 months. If there is the will to do so, this autumn the committee will visit Poland and will be welcomed there, because Poland and the Polish people have nothing to hide."@en1
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