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Madam President, we continue to witness the fact that, in the world outside Europe, governments are killing people for acts which we do not consider liable to punishment, or which merit, at most, a light punishment. We still have regimes which attempt to cling on to power by resorting to violence, we still have people who are being discriminated against and there are still people living in miserable and humiliating conditions below the poverty line.
There are still population groups without their own state who feel that the government of the state in which they find themselves would prefer it if they left the country in order to make room for people who belong to the majority group. There are governments which take no interest in certain sections of their population and which refuse to tackle their problems.
In Europe, we agree that this is unacceptable, but we continue to operate double standards. Countries whose friendship we want to maintain, because they are large and economically powerful, or those which are important trading partners or whom we see as our allies, are able to get away with more than small, powerless countries. We have to put a stop to that. Otherwise, the reliability of our statistics on human rights abuses will be called into question."@en1
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