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"Madam President, Baroness Ashton, congratulations on your new human rights strategy. I hope that this strategy will help make various parts of the policy more coherent. I am thinking, in particular, of the relationship between trade and human rights. Moreover, it is now time we translated words into deeds and I would, once again, like to ask that you devote some attention to religious freedom.
Last week I visited both Egypt and Turkey, or eastern Turkey, to be precise, two countries where the European Union rightly wants to have a strong presence, but which are failing to move in the right direction. In Egypt, I talked to the Copts, whose lives are becoming more difficult, particularly now that there is a threat of extremist parties coming to power. In Turkey, I saw that the model which President Erdoğan and Arab countries are so keen to promote strongly disadvantages Christians. Aramaic Christians are slowly being brought to their knees and centuries-old monasteries, such as Mor Gabriel, are at risk of losing all their land.
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spearhead that ought to be included in the policy, then surely it is religious freedom."@en1
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