Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-04-21-Speech-1-144"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-04-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Cost of obtaining a visa for Belarusian and Ukrainian citizens (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080421.17.1-144"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-04-21-Speech-1-1452
lpv:speaker	lp:Adam Bielan2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2007-09-11--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2007-05-23--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2007-09-05--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; UEN (2007-08-29--2009-07-13)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (2007-01-16--2009-07-13)3 substitute; TRAN (2007-09-05--2009-07-13)3 member; AFET (2007-09-06--2009-07-13)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2007-01-16--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the European Union will not guarantee the security of its Eastern border by ignoring the interests of Belarusians and Ukrainians. We should support visits to the Union by the widest possible groups of people specifically from Ukraine and Belarus, and at the same time isolating the Lukashenka regime. Democratic processes and the changes in the mentality of our Eastern neighbours, for example as far as their perceptions of NATO in Ukraine are concerned, will take place more quickly thanks to personal experiences of visits in the European Union countries. At the moment Belarusians must pay EUR 60 for a visa. This is equivalent of one third of average salary and precludes most of the society from visiting. This situation suits the Lukashenka regime, since the more contacts with Western Europe are restricted, the easier it will be to control Belarusian society. The visa requirement isolates the Belarusian youth and those people who have opposition sympathies. The West should want to maintain contacts with these social groups. Expensive visa charges lead only to an increase in the activity of the visa mafia and to other pathologies on the borders. Such barriers also cause tangible losses to tourism in Poland. Skiers from Ukraine and Belarus have visited Polish mountains in large numbers in recent years. They have tended to arrive in early January, when the Orthodox Christmas begins. By now Polish skiing resorts are empty. Ladies and gentlemen, especially now, when at the NATO summit in Bucharest Vladimir Putin threatened to cause the break-up of Ukraine and stated that, and I quote, ‘ a clear signal is needed that the European Union will not tolerate such threats against its nearest neighbour in international politics. I appeal for the fastest possible commencement of a dialogue on specific actions so that the Ukrainians will not require EU visas. I wish to state clearly that a real vision of a contemporary and safe Europe is not possible without Ukraine."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Ukraine is not even a state, and one part of its territory is Eastern Europe and another – a large one – was gifted to it by Russia’"1

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