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The readmission agreement with Russia is one of the important documents through which the Commission is attempting to regulate immigration. It actually forms part of the debate on the issues of democracy, equal rights, minority rights and the protection of cultural identity.
The issue goes beyond relations with Russia and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The key issue for EU Member States is mass immigration from Africa, Turkey, countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC), Indochina, China and Latin America.
The agreement with Russia should be a kind of model agreement, on the basis of which the Commission will clarify progress in the European economic area, and at the same time will gauge the extent to which it can interfere in the internal affairs of neighbouring countries. Russia is a large and powerful partner on which the EU is dependent up to a point, and because of this the agreement avoids making criticisms under the heading of ‘respect for the basic rights of the persons involved’. It is only through the issues raised in the explanatory statement from the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs that we see an attempt to use the readmission agreement to interfere in Russia’s internal affairs.
This trend is so disturbing that there is no way that I can support the agreement. It runs counter to the security and humanitarian aspects of the agreement. The Committee on Foreign Affairs is mostly interested, oddly enough, in ‘the absence of a regulatory framework for implementing the agreement’. I welcome the call for the Commission to help Russian institutions implement the agreement. On the other hand, I object to the obfuscation of the concept of safe third countries."@en1
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