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"Madam President, many of us in this Chamber regret the decisions by Kenya, the African Union and the Arab League to refuse to put into effect the international arrest warrant brought against Omar al-Bashir for crimes against humanity. The Sudanese President thus enjoys total impunity in almost all African and Arab countries. Many of us, though doubtless not quite so many, wish that international justice could be the same for everybody throughout the world.
We know how difficult it was to set up the International Criminal Court (ICC). We also know that there is still quite a long way to go before this court can act throughout the world. We would be more credible, however, if all our Member States, particularly France, did not vacillate so much before adapting their laws to those of international justice. We would be more credible if major countries like the United States did not place themselves beyond the reach of this international justice.
I would go so far as to say that European countries bear serious responsibilities towards Africa, and we must not give them the impression of having double standards, because we have to acknowledge that international justice seems to apply above all to African countries unless the governments of certain European countries have powerful interests there.
Therefore, we in this House regret that the ICC’s decision has not been applied to Omar al-Bashir, who is responsible for so many crimes. However, we want equal justice for everybody, including on European Union soil. It is only on the basis of this condition – that of setting an example – that the European Union can be a real area of freedom and justice and we can progress step by step towards the universality of law, democracy and human rights.
That is why I am also delighted that this morning a large majority of this House condemned all discrimination against the Roma people, particularly the xenophobic comments by the President of the French Republic, who still dares to invoke the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
What we have to do now, Commissioner, is to turn our words into deeds if we want our words to remain credible throughout the world."@en1
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