Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-12-17-Speech-3-285"

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dcterms:Date	"2008-12-17"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:translated text	". Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I too would like to thank the rapporteur, Mrs Andrikienė, for the work she is doing on the question of the role of the European Union at the United Nations. There is not time to go into detail about the entire report the Council presented on human rights. I think that a key issue is respect for our own rules and, in particular, of the mechanisms in place for the human rights clause in cooperation agreements, but we will have time to discuss and expand on this topic when we come to Mr Obiols i Germà’s report. In the short time I have left, I would, for the record, like to extend my compliments and congratulations to the French Presidency and Mrs Yade for having taken the initiative at the UN on the universal decriminalisation of homosexuality. I see this as a highly significant political initiative, to be praised all the more for the fact that the support of 60 states has already been secured. We have heard from Mrs Ferrero-Waldner and we welcome her words and her commitment. It is important not only that the European Union is united on this but also that it should play a similar role to that which we played in involving other countries on other continents in order to achieve the universal moratorium on the death penalty. That has been the key strategy. On this subject it should be noted that the Holy See, the Vatican State, acting not in its position as the religious entity with which we have a cultural dialogue, but as the state that sits as an observer at the United Nations, has launched a hard-line, critical offensive against the French initiative. With the frankness that is called for in international relations, I believe that we must remind the Vatican State that the decriminalisation of homosexuality is important to us, it is a question of human rights, and that the challenge they are mounting should be decisively rejected."@en1
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