Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-06-12-Speech-2-382-000"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Leonidas Donskis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with Israel (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; DROI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2009-07-20--2014-06-30)3 substitute; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Lietuvos Respublikos liberalų sąjūdis (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-24--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; DEVE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World is always a unique opportunity for the European Union, its politicians and human rights activists to give a vision of a world for which liberal democracies are ready to fight ideological battles, which would bring us closer to reality, in which cooperation and partnership between countries is based not just on economic strength, rich natural resources, security interests and wise compromises between historical and modern differences, but, above all, on the universal recognition that the value of human life, dignity and rights are crucial and fundamental criteria of a country’s civilisation and credibility and that human rights are not, and cannot be, up for negotiation or held hostage by economics. We have had an historic opportunity to convince ourselves that the pursuit of freedom and dignity is not just an invention of the modern Western world, but that it is a universal goal of humanity, spontaneously and momentarily, even without any refined policy or philosophy, bringing humanity together throughout the world. This was the Arab Spring, the aspiration of freedom and democracy that broke through with great force, which can rightly be compared with such momentous events in our recent history as the Eastern European nations’ struggle for freedom and the great human rights movements from Andrei Sakharov and his companions in Russia to in Poland. As future rapporteur, I will have the difficult task of trying to evaluate the lessons learnt by Europe thanks to the Arab Spring and analyse the consequences of these lessons for common European Union human rights policy in the future. Both the Arab Spring and the other events of last year increasingly reveal the power of information technology and the importance of expression, the media and social media for democratic revolutions and democratic progress. In my report, I therefore cannot fail to mention the important events of last year in Belarus and the very poor human rights situation in Tibet, which is a concern both for my group and, I believe, Parliament as a whole, and which must be raised at European Union level. Madam President, Baroness Ashton, the Annual Report on Human Rights and the European Parliament’s cooperation with you must become an opportunity to look boldly into the future of Europe and the world because, let us be frank and let us not hide it, retrospective talk in the report taking into account the situation in the world in 2011 is tantamount to talking about the world’s future and humanity strategies."@en1
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