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"Mr President, once again we are going to express our outrage at the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in particular the situation of women’s rights, as demonstrated in this resolution.
As has already been pointed out, unfortunately these countries are some of the worst offenders in terms of violating women’s rights: life expectancy, rape, murder, honour crimes. The list is long and many of my colleagues have already given examples of these. I do not believe that the presence of the military forces in Afghanistan has made any difference to Afghan women, or that their withdrawal will make anything worse.
Nevertheless, we have to put pressure on these countries to make changes, and not just from a legal perspective. We have partnership agreements with them, so we should put them to good use, in the interests of the civilian population, in the interests of human rights and in the interests of democracy.
We must learn from our past mistakes, particularly in the Maghreb. We must ensure that the democracy and human rights clauses are actually implemented, and we shall all reap the rewards."@en1
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