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"Mr President, I apologise for earlier; I was really convinced I had two minutes. Last week the European Union and Libya signed a memorandum of understanding called a ‘national indicative programme’ (NIP) covering the period 2011-2013, with EUR 60 million earmarked for the development of human resources, of the health sector, and for common action in the fight against the illegal immigration situation, according to the text distributed to journalists.
This memorandum of understanding has been signed on the fringes of the seventh round of negotiations with Libya in which, I am sorry to say, the EU is making a fool of itself in front of the international press, particularly in Europe and Africa. We all know that Libya is a hub of immigration to Europe, but everyone knows what terrible fate is in store for those men and women who are fleeing poverty and persecution, hoping to find refuge in Europe.
Hundreds of them are imprisoned, executed, or suffer the worst possible abuse. Worse still, hundreds of them have simply been left in the middle of the Sahara desert without any food, dying of hunger and thirst.
In response to a question raised on this subject last week by one of my fellow Members, Mr Füle said – and I am quoting him here – that he would go there, with the Libyan interior minister, to see what was happening. Personally, I find such a response unacceptable. We know just how capable Mr Gaddafi is of deceiving the Western democracies. Our Swiss friends have just paid dearly for it. The most recent provocation was the closure of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the eve of the seventh round of negotiations.
The Libyans are doing the dirty work for the European governments, most recently in Italian territorial waters.
Commissioner, how far will we go in our negotiations with Libya? Mr Barrot told us that no agreement on migration would be concluded until Libya had ratified the Geneva Convention. Commissioner, can you tell us what exactly is happening with the negotiating mandate given …"@en1
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