Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-09-24-Speech-3-065"

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dcterms:Date	"2008-09-24"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20080924.5.3-065"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-09-24-Speech-3-0662
lpv:speaker	lp:Mario Mauro2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CULT (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2008-06-18--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFET (2008-07-09--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-16--2009-07-13)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (2007-01-16--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Forza Italia (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2007-01-16--2009-07-13)3 member; BUDG (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr Jouyet, Commissioner Wallström, ladies and gentlemen, I must respectfully point out a difference between my colleagues’ speeches and your introductions, namely that you did not have the courage to speak in those introductions about the massacres of the past few days, nor to strongly condemn the lack of religious freedom in India. This is a very serious sign. It leads us to believe that we will present ourselves at the forthcoming summit without having the courage to address the key issue, which affects the real relations and true friendship existing between the European Union and India. What is at stake, in fact, is not solely the massacre of Christians but the principle of religious freedom, and religious freedom is a freedom unlike any other. Religious freedom determines the quality of a democracy. We heard the Indian President tell us in this House how, in a Christian school, he learned not only to love knowledge but also to distinguish between religion and politics. If this is true, we emphatically demand that the European Union devote the days of the European Union-India Summit to recalling that religious freedom is fundamental to the development of democracy, and to pressing home the point that we have to perform a common task: we must remember in a spirit of friendship that the infringement of human rights puts an end to truly constructive relations between entities which have everything to gain from building their future together. We must have this courage, Commissioner; we must have this courage, Minister, because, if we do not assume this responsibility, we will inevitably make ourselves complicit in eroding the quality of democracy."@en1
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