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It is without question essential to promote the universality and indivisibility of human rights, ‘meaning not only civil and political rights but also social, environmental, economic and cultural rights’.
However, there are contradictions in the report: for example, while stating that the dialogue with a third country on human rights will be conducted in agreement with the latter, at the same time it threatens that, in cases where the latter rejects this dialogue, the EU must consider specific actions in that country, using for this purpose the ‘financial instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide’.
Will the Member States agree to apply this measure reciprocally? Obviously not, because the ‘dialogue’ on human rights with third countries is not meant for discussing human rights in the EU, but in those countries.
This example helps to illustrate the real goal, which is to try and use human rights as an instrument of pressure and interference, at the convenience and in the interests of the major European powers. The report, aware of this possibility, which it does not actually support, underlines the need for ‘coherence’ and ‘credibility’ on the part of the EU. The silence on the CIA’s illegal flights speaks for itself."@en1
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