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"en.20110404.13.1-035-000"2
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"Mr President, Mr Ai Weiwei, who is the best-known Chinese artist and dissident and has always had the opportunity to speak freely, was detained at Beijing Airport on Sunday and is, apparently, in prison. Not only should I use this opportunity to protest against the Chinese authorities. I also have to say to you and to our colleagues that we should perhaps reconsider our participation in the second China-EU summit next month in Beijing if this is the direction in which things are going.
It is necessary for us to have an urgent resolution on this as fast as possible so that we can increase pressure on the Chinese authorities to release Mr Ai Weiwei. The first idea was to replace the urgent resolution on Zimbabwe on Thursday by an urgent resolution on the detention of Mr Ai Weiwei, but after brief consultation, it seems there may be a better option: putting Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) on Wednesday, so that the space that is liberated on Thursday could then be used for this urgent resolution on Mr Ai Weiwei. I have consulted the different political groups here and they agree with this way of changing the agenda."@en1
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