Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-03-15-Speech-4-245"
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"Mr President, Nigeria is a huge African country which, since the end of military dictatorship in 1999, has been struggling to accomplish modern-day democratic reforms. The forthcoming elections have once again brought issues relating to respect for human rights to the forefront of political debate. In this respect, the Africa Director of Human Rights Watch has very pertinently commented: ‘Nigeria needs leaders who will tackle the country’s appalling human rights problems.’ The issue of freedom of sexual orientation and the decriminalisation of homosexuality, albeit a sensitive one, is regarded by the developed world as important in relation to an individual’s freedom, as long as it does not infringe on other people’s freedoms.
We call upon the Nigerian authorities, and in particular the Nigerian parliamentarians and senators, to bear this in mind when considering a relevant bill presently before them. This motion for a resolution should in no way be taken to mean that the homosexuality issue is regarded by the European Parliament as taking precedence over other areas of concern, such as Nigeria’s corruption epidemic or the abominable state of affairs with respect to the abusive behaviour by government security forces. Nigeria needs to remedy these areas quickly too."@en1
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