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"en.20120913.29.4-185-000"2
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"Mr President, the characteristic style of these motions for resolutions could just as well have come from Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate in the US presidential elections. It is for that very reason that I voted against it. I would warn against meddling too deeply in Russia’s internal affairs. Russia and the Russian people are capable of themselves developing a state under the rule of law and at a speed and with the focuses that they themselves choose. No country, especially one the size of Russia, would accept that from outside. The United States, similarly, would not accept a comparable imposition.
For the time being, I would like to concentrate on the conviction of the band Pussy Riot. I have some sympathy for the Russians’ sensitive reaction to actions of this kind in Moscow’s largest and most important church, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, in which I, too, have prayed. If these women had done the same thing in a mosque in Saudi Arabia or in Pakistan, they would have been sentenced to death. No parliament would react to that. This is therefore a cheap form of anti-Russian propaganda that is being used here, and I must protest against the attempt being made here to force Europe into conflict with Russia."@en1
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