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"Mr President, we are a Community that respects the rule of law as one of the foundations on which we have built our identity. We should expect the same from our political and economic partners. I call upon the European Union’s representatives at the summit to raise the matter of full compliance by Russia with the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights.
This Court was not established to be a phoney institution, whose rulings were only respected by those committing minor and sometimes questionable infringements of human rights. It was established to ensure that torturers, rapists and murderers would be deterred from committing further offences by the knowledge that the appropriate sentences would be handed down to them.
The Russian Federation must therefore work very closely with the Court, and must respect the Court’s judgments. Clearly, a country that does not honour the agreements it makes cannot be treated a reliable partner. Russia’s actions are in stark contrast to its statements that it is a reliable supplier of sources of energy. This is one of the assertions Russian diplomats love to make. If Russia is going to prove as reliable as it did regarding Chechnya, Mrs Politovskaya or Mr Litvinienko, the European Union will go down in history as the most naïve institution that ever existed."@en1
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