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"en.20121023.45.2-413-000"2
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"Madam President, first of all I would like to thank Ms Ojuland as well for this initiative which – if the Council does adopt the recommendations of Parliament – would be the first example of its kind, whereby targeted sanctions of this kind are used as a way of preventing impunity in a strategic partner, in this case Russia.
Russia, we have to remember, is supposed to be a member of the Council of Europe and of the OSCE. It is supposed to have a constitution which demands that the rule of law be upheld, yet we have the terrible case of this man, who died in terrible pain, which was covered up as a result of high-level criminal corruption.
We do not welcome on our territories criminally-acquired funds. Stopping these people travelling to the European Union is, I think, a way of exerting leverage over Russia and pointing out the terrible injustices that prevail in that country, the lack of democracy and the deterioration in the standard of human rights.
This proposal is not unique to this Parliament. Other jurisdictions and other parliaments, such as the US Congress and the British House of Commons, have done very similar things. If it is successful I think it will actually send very strong signals to other countries where we can use similar targeted sanctions to put pressure on them to observe the rule of law."@en1
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