Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-05-20-Speech-4-271"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-05-20"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100520.23.4-271"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Véronique De Keyser2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; S&D (2009-07-14--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; DEVE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Parti Socialiste (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; DROI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the starting point for this resolution is the almost dissolution of the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi, who is a recipient of the Sakharov Prize and has been under house arrest for years. By dissolving her party, the National League for Democracy, winner of the last elections, the military junta is trying to eliminate a whole section of the opposition before the elections this coming October. However, to put the icing on the cake of what will be not so much a democratic ballot as a complete electoral farce, political prisoners and monks have now also been excluded from the ballot. The junta continues its abuses of power, large multinational companies continue to benefit from their contracts with that junta, and the Commission has reduced aid for refugees who have fled to the border with Thailand. Unfortunately, we have a series of examples of countries and regions where the international community is powerless to restore democracy and the rule of law. Burma is one of them, with its stream of resistance fighters and martyrs, of which Aung San Suu Kyi is the most famous icon. Is it too much to ask the European Union, I might almost say out of decency, not to cut its aid for the refugees on the border of Thailand and Burma, and to begin immediately to finance cross-border aid, particularly medical assistance? Is it not a matter of urgency that High Representative Ashton and the Member States should support the recommendations of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Burma, namely, that a committee be established to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity, which could be included in a United Nations General Assembly resolution this year? Let us make Burma a textbook case, one that shows our ability to promote democracy without the use of bombs and tanks."@en1
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