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"We believe that this resolution is a positive step in terms of rights based on gender and sexual orientation, and that it counters discrimination. We therefore voted in favour. However, there are some comments that we need to make. Human rights are indeed indivisible. However, the European Union, at the same time as it is taking this positive step, is involved in the process of the accelerated denial and even destruction of social rights, which are human rights, and even economic and political rights. This is happening in countless Member States under the pretext of so-called austerity, but it is particularly prevalent in countries, such as Portugal, which are subject to programmes of veritable aggression from the EU and International Monetary Fund. These attacks affect everyone, including the social groups mentioned most in this resolution.
At the same time, several EU countries and the EU itself are involved in operations of intervention and aggression, as in the case of Libya, or of condoning crimes, as in the case of Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, or, in the past, involvement in acts of profound disrespect for human rights, such as the flights of the US Central Intelligence Agency and secret prisons, which undermine the principles set out in this resolution. In other words, the EU lacks credibility when it talks about ‘universal and indivisible’ human rights."@en1
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