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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have twice had the opportunity to visit Kazakhstan to monitor human rights issues. I believe that this agreement is necessary, because we need to regulate our trade and economic relations. At the same time, we must not allow ourselves to forget that the Kazakh opposition is currently in huge difficulties. Vladimir Kozlov has been sentenced to seven years in prison for fighting for the rights of workers who died in the town of Zhanaozen. By way of comparison, the police officers who shot at the workers received five-year prison sentences. We have learnt today that the public prosecutor wants to shut down the activities of all independent media outlets: 23 news and television portals.
I think that we should adopt certain amendments to this report today in order to show that we are seeking to enforce human rights. I therefore call on the Kazakh authorities and on Baroness Ashton and the European External Action Service to take the necessary steps to support the activities of independent media outlets, and I urge us to adopt this agreement, but with amendments that will guarantee respect for human rights in Kazakhstan."@en1
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