Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-04-01-Speech-3-028"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2009-04-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Recommendation to the Council on the new EU-Russia agreement (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"cs"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20090401.12.3-028"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-04-01-Speech-3-0292
lpv:speaker	lp:Vladimír Remek2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; TRAN (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are discussing our recommendations to the Council for the new agreement with Russia. However, the text of the report does not look to me like recommendations for diplomatic negotiations. For the most part the document articulates and emphasises the need to demand, to insist, to stress, to challenge, and so on. This is a lexicon of dictation and I am very pleased not to have the role of the negotiator who is supposed to be guided by such recommendations. At the same time we acknowledge that the EU receives, aside from anything else, a quarter of its supplies of oil and natural gas from Russia. I sometimes think that we are trying to ask for secure, stable supplies of vitally important raw materials while wielding a cudgel. And what do we, the EU, bring to the negotiating table? Where is our position on human rights that we hide behind in relation to, for example, Russian-speaking minorities living within the territory of EU Member States? Where is our opinion on the reunions and actions of former members of SS units in EU countries? Or is it that we do not oppose them but rather support them, in conflict with UN findings for example? Also, how is it that the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) can name both countries, Ukraine and Russia, as responsible for the problems concerning natural gas supplies to the EU, but our recommendations only challenge Russia? All in all it is rather like trying to play football with only one goal. That is not, as you will surely admit, a proper game. So let us not expect any miraculous results. Personally, I therefore have a problem supporting the document in its current form. Even in the Committee on Foreign Affairs a third of the MEPs were not happy with the draft. Meanwhile, the Committee on International Trade, has taken a far more realistic approach to relations with Russia, taking into account what Europe really needs."@en1
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