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"en.20120613.24.3-372-000"2
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"I voted in favour of the appointment of an EU Special Representative for the protection and defence of human rights because I recognise the possible scope of their operations, including working and communicating with the United Nations, the UN Human Rights Council, regional organisations and, above all, non-governmental organisations. All of these bodies’ shared goals are to support human rights, including personal freedom, freedom of expression and religion, and to oppose violence, torture, discrimination and the death penalty, evils which affect men, women and children every single day.
The EU Special Representative (EUSR) would need to have vast experience, knowledge and qualifications and be of extremely high international and humanitarian standing, while also being charismatic, brave and confident. Given a flexible term of two years, the EUSR would have to intervene to achieve improvements and mediate to obtain greater respect for human beings and a better, more peaceful and democratic civil society. I think that the work of the EUSR will be important because, by giving the EU a voice and real clout, it will help strengthen the effectiveness and visibility of EU foreign policy on human rights, democracy and justice, while working together with the High Representative for Foreign Policy."@en1
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