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"I would like to use this vote to underline the permanent discrepancy that exists between the words and actions of the European Union in certain areas.
It is one thing to ask Member States to combat organ trafficking and to arm itself with an arsenal of criminal-law deterrents, but what are we supposed to think now that the Commission and several of these same Member States recognise Kosovo and its leaders, some of whom are personally involved in the trafficking of organs removed from Serbian prisoners executed for this purpose, if we are to believe Mrs del Ponte, former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia?
What are we supposed to think when no Member State takes sanctions against China, or raises any protest, while witness accounts and investigations all point to the fact that executions are being planned there according to organ requirements, sometimes of foreign patients? What will happen to these rich Europeans who get around the organ shortage by engaging in the morbid tourism that encourages these practices?
Mr Adamou’s report is strangely ambiguous on these issues. Pious hope on the inside, deafening silence on the outside. We have seen it all before where certain countries are concerned."@en1
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