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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I gladly take the floor to endorse Mrs Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou’s report, even though I do so with a touch of sadness, since, last weekend, we received a further tragic piece of news in relation to women, namely the stoning to death of a woman in Baghdad, on Saturday 21 October.
I believe that everyone is aware of the fact that it is only by women having equal dignity throughout the world that a change can occur, too, in the major problems facing the world today. It was in this frame of mind and with this firm belief, that is to say with a firm belief in the value and the role that women can have now and in the future in enabling this world to move towards a solution of peaceful coexistence, that I welcomed the work done by Mrs Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, in which consideration is given above all to the fact that women migrants are a somewhat special case.
We would prefer it if this were not the case, but it is. In a world in which the division is still so clear-cut – and for a large part of the world there is still a division in terms of rights and duties – I believe that treating women and men migrants in the same way would probably be a mistake, just as it is always a mistake to treat different circumstances identically.
The Union therefore needs to pay special attention to women’s immigration, also taking account of implications that do not, in contrast, characterise men’s immigration. I believe that we can find this focus in Mrs Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou’s report, which I accordingly intend to support."@en1
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