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"Mr President, late last year, you and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Pillay, came to this Parliament and told us that the Goldstone report into the human rights violations on both sides in the Gaza conflict was thorough, objective and met international standards.
So let us not try to rubbish this report. Let us act on it. With others in this debate, I have personally spoken with representatives of the Israeli Government, representatives of the Palestinian Authority and, in Gaza itself, representatives of the commission set up by the de facto authority, to plead with them to cooperate with Goldstone and to undertake their own credible and independent investigations to bring to account those responsible for violations. I spoke with the US Assistant Secretary of State, Michael Posner, when he was here, to encourage Israel to do the same.
To our Spanish Presidency colleague preparing for this Friday’s UN vote, I say: do not pursue EU consensus at all costs. The idea put forward by some for a unanimous EU abstention would be a travesty for all the victims of this terrible conflict. We should negotiate the best text possible, but then I hope more than the five EU States who voted ‘yes’ last time will vote ‘yes’, to keep the pressure up.
This investigation into alleged breaches of international humanitarian law by the Human Rights Council – just as much as the 2004 International Court of Justice ruling on the separation rule – should be treated with the proper status of legal rulings of international treaty bodies that they are.
I condemn the leader of the Conservative Group in this debate, who has called the UN, a ‘suspicious source’. It represents the highest aspirations for all of us on this planet and deserves all of our support.
I would like to say – in a European Union forged from war – for us, war crimes must be held to account. So, when the UN Secretary-General reported to the Security Council concerning compliance by Israel and the Palestinians that ‘no determination can be made’, that cannot be good enough. These allegations must be determined, and Europe must show determination that they should."@en1
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