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"Madam President, last Sunday I was in Ukraine, where I hoped to take part in the first ever Kiev Pride along with those brave souls there who stick their necks out for gay rights. Unfortunately, the Pride festival had to be cancelled, as more than 500 extremist nationalists threatened the participants and the police proved unable to protect them, or perhaps did not want to.
That is not all, though. Ukraine has two legal bills on the table that would prohibit information about homosexuality and make life harder for gays and lesbians there. Ukraine, and Moldova, too, where I was at the weekend, are European countries that seek European ties. They want free trade and they want visa-free travel. I want to ask the Commission to make it absolutely clear that free trade and freedom to travel go hand in hand with freedom for their citizens, and that includes in their sexual orientation."@en1
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