Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-07-09-Speech-3-283"
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"Mr President, the International Olympic Committee justified their granting of the 2008 Olympic Games to China by claiming that this would help open the country up to improvements in its human rights situation.
However, Chinese authorities have not heeded international calls to stop pursuing their follow-up to the riots of 14 March 2008 in Tibet. Participants in the protest are still being traced, detained and arbitrarily arrested and their families are being given no information as to their whereabouts, although this is required by Chinese law.
I call on China to abide by the public commitments it has made regarding respect for human rights, minority rights, democracy and the rule of law. This was the deal struck with the IOC when it agreed to allow China to host the games in the first place.
This is a historic and unique opportunity for China to demonstrate its willingness to improve its human rights record to the world but in my opinion we are not seeing sufficient progress in this regard."@en1
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