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"Mr President, last Saturday thousands of people all over Europe celebrated Gay Pride Day, 30 years after the world’s first case of AIDS was discovered. Thirty years later, the battle against HIV across the planet is still unequal depending on the place where the infected person lives and, beyond this, the social class to which the person belongs, just as the rights of homosexual people differ profoundly depending on their country of residence.
Today there are still 76 countries around the world where sexual relations between people of the same sex are punished, and at least seven of these countries impose the death penalty. This is why the United Nations Resolution approved on 17 June is of such enormous importance, in that it utterly rejects this attitude and urgently calls on these countries to change such attitudes and such legislation.
I want to join this appeal today, and also the appeal against the blocking of the Equal Treatment Directive, which grants, or which could grant, equal rights and the same equal opportunities to this large group of citizens in the European Union, thereby marking out the direction in the European Union for what should be a common direction all over the world."@en1
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