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"The world sees the European Union as a federation of states that stand up for human rights worldwide and emphasise the importance of the principles of the rule of law and respect for human dignity. It has earned these laudatory epithets by raising its voice against human rights violations across the globe, and by engaging in commercial relations declaredly influenced by the attitudes of countries to the prevailing human rights regime.
We know that China is one of the most important trading partners of the Western World. It is in the interest of European countries that this partnership continue to be similarly fruitful for both parties in the future. There is nothing new about Chinese state policy concerning Tibet and the repeated disregard shown for the rights of the Tibetan people. The self-sacrifice and suicides of Tibetan monks and nuns are a cry for help addressed to the entire world. It is a cry for help because it would seem as though the world, and its champion of human rights, the European Union, did not hear their previous signals and less drastic ways of protest. But we did hear them, and we hear them now, too, and yet other than debates like this one here in Parliament or in the national parliaments there does not seem to be much happening in order to resolve the situation.
I am convinced that European states should take their responses to similar cases more seriously, and the European Union should take itself more seriously."@en1
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