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"Mr President, the award of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Sakharov award today certainly make it necessary for the EU to practise what it preaches.
I have one particular challenge on this. I am delighted to see that Mr Donskis’s excellent report includes the continuing problem of EU-based pharmaceutical companies exporting death penalty drugs to third countries, including the United States. To shy away from this issue would give tacit approval to EU complicity in the barbaric practice of capital punishment, which we in this European Parliament deplore almost without exception. I was very sorry to hear the British Conservative Charles Tannock reiterate that the death penalty is a matter of conscience for his group. I do not understand how they can expect to be in the EU.
Anyway I am pleased that Mr Donskis’s report includes a call for the Commission to amend the 2005 regulation to require prior authorisation of export of these drugs, which can be used in lethal injections for capital punishment, so that we prevent new or rebranded drugs slipping through the net. I am also delighted to see Mr Lambrinidis here and I hope that perhaps we can work together on this particular issue. I would like to applaud those European companies as well as governments, which include the UK Government, which have taken steps to address this matter, but more needs to be done.
Finally, I would just like to commend the report’s inclusion of the appalling problem of oppressive blasphemy laws used in some countries to persecute those of a differing religion. It was very nice to hear Sharin Ebadi, in particular, talk about the problem in Iran. Last week in Brussels many of us attended the event organised by the Ahmadiyyah Muslim community, which in fact Mr Tannock presided over. Their work campaigning for peace and interfaith dialogue has attracted international praise, yet their members who live in Pakistan and other countries like Indonesia face discrimination, persecution, disenfranchisement and even death. So we must work more on these oppressive blasphemy laws."@en1
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