Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-03-11-Speech-3-391"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-03-11"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-03-11-Speech-3-3922
lpv:speaker	lp:Richard Howitt2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, since its establishment in 1993, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has fundamentally reshaped the role of international humanitarian law and has provided the victims of the tragic Balkan conflicts, who would otherwise have gone unheard, with an opportunity to voice the horrors that they and their families experienced and to seek justice. The ICTY has shown that no one, whatever their position or status at the time of the conflict, is immune from justice – a precedent that now sees the International Criminal Court promote respect for human rights across our world. Today, we reiterate that, for the former Yugoslavia, there can be no impunity for those indictees who are still being sought. Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić are still renegades from justice and must be handed in. We should also give our full support to Chief Prosecutor Brammertz’s call for the necessary documentation, vital to the case against the former General Ante Gotovina and others, to be made available to the Tribunal – an issue that our Croatian friends, amongst others, know is pertinent to the EU accession process. The Socialist Group has proposed two amendments to plenary. Firstly, that it should be made clear that any proposals for a possible mandate extension should not divert attention from the key task of completing trials and moving towards the earliest possible closure. Secondly, we appeal for free access to the ICTY’s archives by prosecutors, defence counsel and, eventually, historians and researchers. I thank the rapporteur, and I commend these amendments to the House."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; DROI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Labour Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; EMPL (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Richard Howitt,"1 "on behalf of the PSE Group."1
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