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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today, after a year of hearings and questioning, we are bringing the work of the committee of inquiry into the CIA to a close. What will be crucial, from the point of view of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, is whether we will, today, vote on this report on the basis of facts and proof, or whether suspicions and insinuations will prevail.
It is for this reason that we in the Group of the European People’s Party will be unable to vote for the report’s adoption if it continues to make reference to matters that we have not been mandated to consider; if, as well as taking an unbalanced view of individual Member States, it also indulges in baseless suppositions concerning the presence of secret prisons on EU soil, contains unsubstantiated assertions, generalisations and tendentious insinuations and demands disproportionate action against certain Member States, including, for example, the suspension of the right of one of them to vote in the Council, and, finally, if it depicts the activities of the intelligence services as criminal in nature.
There is one thing I would like to make clear, and it is that Mr Fava’s original report is one we can largely live with. If today’s vote gets us back to that; if Mr Fava accepts the amendments we have tabled in the interests of objectivity and clarification, then we in this House will be able today, by a broad majority, to produce a balanced result, something that contains a clear vote for our understanding of the rule of law and for the defence of our fundamental rights and freedoms, while also showing that we have faced up to our responsibility to conduct an objective investigation.
I would, though, like to make it no less clear that we will not be able to endorse the report if the rapporteur ignores our key amendments."@en1
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