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"Madam President, I think we have an important summit before us in two aspects. First of all, in the dialogue we have to have with the leadership in Russia and the energy dialogue and, of course, the conclusion of WTO entry. We have the visa liberalisation and we have the partnership and cooperation agreement on which we should work. I hope we can have a real restart on the issue. Of course, we have also the election question, as you just mentioned and thank you very much for your very clear position, High Representative. It is a sign of the maturity of the Russian population and of their unwillingness, as my colleague said, to accept everything coming from the Kremlin or the White House – the Russian White House, I mean – and I think we should support all civil society that is trying to convince the political establishment that another way is much better: an open way, a democratic way. I think this is the line we should follow. As we now have in our joint resolution, and as you said, High Representative, we call on the commission that was set up by Mr Medvedev to look into the matter seriously, openly and frankly. I was, together with Mr Fleckenstein, in Russia at the beginning of November. We saw already at that time that there would be serious flaws in the election, and we hope that a good result comes out of this research and inquiry. I would suggest, and have suggested, to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, together with the delegation, holding a hearing in the European Parliament in January with representatives of all the parties – of the parties who could run, with the parties who were prevented from running, with civil society, with the OSCE, in order to have a real open picture. With this in mind, I will reject now an appeal in our joint resolution about the parliament’s re-election to be repeated. Let us wait and look into the detail, let us look into the facts. Maybe we will come to a result; maybe even the Medvedev commission will come to a result that in some areas it should be repeated. I think we should have a clear position and have real facts on the table before we come to these conclusions."@en1
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