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dcterms:Date	"2012-05-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Ukraine, case of Yulia Tymoshenko (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120522.5.2-092-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-05-22-Speech-2-093-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Marek Siwiec2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; IMCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (2009-07-14--2012-12-31)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we talk a lot about Ukraine, the subject comes up in our debates practically every month, and I would ask you all to look at it from the perspective of whether the colours black and white are the right ones to describe the situation there. Shameful things are going on there, because it is shameful to put a former prime minister and several ministers in prison. However, very good things are also happening – reforms are being introduced which make all the legislation associated with the fiscal treaty look simple. Reforms of tax law have been brought in, along with reforms of penal law. At the same time, things have never been so bad in Ukraine in terms of the economic climate. Never before have foreign investors been making such complaints about the legal system in Ukraine. However, in the very same country, new electoral legislation has been adopted in good time and with the agreement of the opposition. In the very same country, the opposition has united, in order to work together against the Party of the Regions. So I would like us to know all this before we say unthinkingly that a new Belarus is emerging or that the situation is just a complete disaster. This year, elections are to be held in which the citizens of Ukraine must have the right – we can help them in this – to say in a national poll if they support the policy of the Party of the Regions or not. This is a fundamental matter for this year. In relation to this, we should ensure that the elections are free and fair, because we do have the appropriate tools for this – we have already done this once before, when, a few years ago, we were able to secure free and fair elections in Ukraine. The authorities in Ukraine are not helping us. Talking about standards in the field of human rights is a waste of breath and does not achieve anything. However, what also horrifies me is the chorus of wise guys in the European Union who want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, who think that Ukraine is a lost cause and that we should break off talks with Ukraine and so in fact push it into the arms of Moscow. Moscow is sitting quietly with its ‘hands off’, but all these zealots are, in fact, implementing Moscow’s policy for it, and I want to protest against this. We should not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Finally, I would like to welcome Yevgenia Tymoshenko and say we are keeping our fingers crossed for her struggle to secure her mother’s release."@en1
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