Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-01-31-Speech-3-200"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-01-31"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Promoting healthy diets and physical activity (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070131.22.3-200"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-01-31-Speech-3-2012
lpv:speaker	lp:Frédérique Ries2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2006-02-27--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Mouvement Réformateur (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2007-02-26)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-03-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am not in the habit of responding to what is said by the extreme right. What I would just say, however, in response to Mr Martinez’s speech is that it is in Tartuffe, I believe, that Molière tells us that to neglect to respond at a given moment amounts to offering support. I feel obliged to respond, in this House, on behalf of the Commissioner, since Mr Martinez did, after all, use the terms ‘throw up’ and ‘scandalous’ on the subjects of the Green Paper and of the report. I have been in this Parliament for seven years, and those are terms that I have never before heard used here. I do not think that this report is particularly controversial or polemical. I think it is fairly consensual, if the speeches made are anything to go by. I therefore totally refute the accusations made or, rather, the insults poured out. It is very clear that Mr Martinez views this scourge only through a North-South prism. That is his own perspective. We do in fact emphasise from the very start – and Mrs Breyer, who is no longer in the House, pointed this out – that, although there are 1 500 million people in the world who suffer from obesity, there are also 800 million who are dying of hunger. To give an example as anecdotal as that used by Mr Martinez, I would also point out that in Micronesia too, in the Samoan Islands, there are people who are obese. I would add in conclusion that, when it comes to humanitarian aid and to showing solidarity, neither I nor anyone else need take lessons from someone like Mr Martinez, given the particular corner of the political chessboard that he inhabits."@en1

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