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"Madam President, Baroness Ashton, firstly, I should like to express my regret that this 300-page report tabled at the last minute exists in no other linguistic version than English. These are not good working conditions.
The report is still a long list and was, without doubt, a compulsory exercise. There are some positive points; a number of improvements have been made, but there is still a lot of work to be done.
For example, there are still many double standards in the examples provided, as well as some rather distorted perspectives.
Why is there no mention of the human rights violations in all Latin American countries?
Why are the murders of trade union representatives in Mexico and Colombia and the impunity granted to their killers not condemned?
Why is the discrimination against Kurds in Turkey not condemned? Sakharov prize winner Leyla Zana was recently severely sentenced.
Why is the freedom not to believe not granted the same level of attention as the freedom to believe? Non-believers are, in many cases, the first victims of religious fundamentalism, yet this is not included in the statistics.
Finally, there is the Arab Spring and the example of Tunisia. The EUR 150 million of extra aid is a derisory amount given the challenges being faced and when we know that Tunisia has a colossal debt of EUR 17 billion – a large part of which is odious debt – and that the country reimburses over EUR 300 million annually, a large part of which goes to the European Union. Millions of euros worth of Ben Ali’s assets remain frozen because they were paid for with public money.
Moreover, just EUR 2 million of these funds were intended for local development, when this is, in fact, the crux of the problem. Local development is where Tunisian needs are the most colossal and was the main cause of the Tunisian revolution. Economic and social rights are just as important as civil and political rights."@en1
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