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"Madam President, we are rightly celebrating the 20 years of the Sakharov Prize, which rightly highlights the bravery of so many people who have put their lives at risk for the right to speak and for human rights.
But this is about more than just speeches. As one famous Irishman said, all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. I was speaking yesterday to one of the prize winners, Mr Salih Osman, who told me that air strikes on civilians still continue in Darfur and there is little protection of innocent people. Yes, some progress has been made in the sense that the ICC is acting, but a lot more needs to be done, and Europe needs to be doing a lot more.
I hope that the new impetus that the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States will bring will renew international efforts, cooperation and action – real action such as the support for the establishment of a no-fly zone over Darfur – and that in the new year, we will finally begin to live up to our fine words and to our moral obligation. Already we have stood by and seen Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, become the basket case of the continent. How much more often do we have to say, ‘never again’?"@en1
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