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"Madam President, Baroness Ashton, the European Union is the region that actively promotes the protection of human rights on a global scale, and it is a positive thing that we will now soon have an EU Special Representative for Human Rights to support this work. It will not be an easy job, either bilaterally or multilaterally, to assume a position here and to rebuff the attempts, for example, to wear down and erode the universality of human rights and produce a strong and proactive human rights policy. We have before us an excellent recommendation from the rapporteur, in which the many duties of the special representative are outlined, including that of making better human rights policy within the institutions of the European Union. I can assure you that we in the Subcommittee on Human Rights will assist and support this work to the best of our ability. The mandate proposed envisages enabling the Special Representative for Human Rights to brief the European Parliament. I would like to see this more clearly worded, so that the Special Representative would regularly keep Parliament informed and be available for discussion. That is a very important concern for me and my colleagues in the House. Finally, Baroness Ashton, I wish you good luck in selecting the EU Special Representative for Human Rights. For this role, we need a qualified and charismatic person capable of energetically, but also patiently and persistently, going into bat for the protection of human rights on a global basis."@en1
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