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"Mr President, I am speaking today in the European Parliament on the 25th anniversary of the introduction of martial law in my country, Poland. Martial law brought with it violence, arrests and imprisonment for thousands of people. I spoke about this yesterday in Parliament, and now say these words again, appropriately enough, a few days after the death of General Augusto Pinochet, one of the world’s cruellest dictators during the second half of the 20th century.
The European Union’s annual report on human rights is one of its most important documents. The European Parliament plays a key role in shaping the European Union’s human rights policy. In the future, I think that work on this report should be better coordinated with the work of the European Parliament in this field. I refer in particular to the coordination of work on this report with the activities of the Subcommittee on Human Rights within the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs.
I would like to draw your attention to the issue of coordinating the human rights policies of the European Union Member States with all European institutions. There should be better coordination of work done in this field, so that we can avoid overlaps between human rights policy at a European level and the policies of individual Member States. The human rights situation outside the European Union should be monitored on a systematic and transparent basis, so that appropriate measures can be taken in relation to countries which infringe these rights.
Human rights policies should be synchronised and should also be linked to all the financial instruments included in the European Union’s budget. A clause on human rights should be included in all agreements signed by the European Union with other countries.
Finally, I would like to stress the importance of the European Parliament's delegations to countries where infringements of human rights take place. I would particularly like to emphasise the importance of the European Parliament’s mission to Cuba during the period of change that this country is currently experiencing."@en1
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