Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-11-16-Speech-4-175"

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dcterms:Date	"2006-11-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Ethiopia2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20061116.23.4-175"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-11-16-Speech-4-1762
lpv:speaker	lp:Michael Gahler2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Iran (2006-09-25--2007-03-13)3 member; DROI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; DEVE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, last month, Mrs Kinnock and I, together with two African colleagues, had the privilege of leading a delegation to Ethiopia, where we had talks with both the government and the opposition, as well as with members of the families of detained dissidents. We are very concerned about the situation there. We have found a complete lack of willingness – particularly on the part of the government – to learn any real lessons from the results of the elections, or, on the other hand, from the findings of a commission of inquiry into the parliament that the government had itself set up. We have urged the Prime Minister to take these findings from the commission of inquiry as the starting point for a nationwide dialogue. To that he gave no clear response; on the contrary, indeed, we have discovered that the members of this commission have been subject to duress and that some of them have fled abroad. If the report is published at all, it will no doubt appear in a polished-up and falsified form. We are grateful to the President of the Commission for speaking to the prime minister in such very plain terms of the occasion of his visit, but it is unfortunate that the environment Commissioner should, by inviting Mr Meles to visit Brussels, undermine the Commission’s stance. I think it important that we should, now that we are equipping ourselves with a new instrument for democracy and human rights, ensure that it is an effective one and one that enables us to support democratic political forces. The new regulation must include a form of words to this effect, for how else are we to provide the opposition with legal counsel or help newly-elected parliamentarians who have no money to exercise their constitutional rights? It is for that reason that I call on not only the Commission, but also and in particular on the Member States to abandon their resistance to an effective instrument for democracy and human rights being drafted in these terms."@en1

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