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"Madam President, without going to extremes, I want to give a factual reply to the questions from Mrs Goudin and Mrs Dahl, and so I will give your House, as well as my hat, the information from the report on the inquiry carried out by the French Inspectorate for active forces and national defence.
For the House’s information – I am not obliged to deal with these questions as part of my functions, but I will do so – I will summarise for you the inquiry into the occurrences of 13 July 2003 in Chem-Chem camp in Bunia, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This inquiry, carried out with the support and cooperation of the Swedish forces, shows that the young man captured by French forces on 13 July 2003, during Operation Artemis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, suffered neither torture nor cruel treatment. He was detained for several hours in the camp, then released. The inquiry was ordered on 31 March 2008 by the head of the army, to complement the preliminary inquiries carried out by the Swedish and French authorities in their respective countries. There was very good cooperation between these authorities and, as a result of the inquiries, it appears that the serious accusations levelled against the French and Swedish soldiers and the two colonels involved are unfounded.
To conclude, it is evident that the protection of human rights and the international conventions must be respected in every phase of foreign policy security and defence operations, from planning to the implementation phase, and this must be achieved, especially, by continuous training for the teams in this sphere."@en1
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