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"Mr President, Commissioner, I share your frustration on this issue. As a Member from the United Kingdom, I would like to say to my government that it must make up its mind whether it is in or whether it is out. When it comes to human rights, I believe that it is doing itself enormous damage on the international stage.
I have prepared a speech, but I will disregard it. I would say to those honourable Members who have spoken against this that it is precisely because you are against it that I am in favour of it. What do we have to fear from being held accountable for our human rights record? What do we have to fear from the promotion and the defence of human rights? People in these galleries expect that this Union is a Union based on fundamental values. It was born out of the ashes of the Second World War and a determination that we would never see a repeat of minorities being taken away and scapegoated simply because they were different. Their human rights were trashed.
So let me say to you, with your excuses about budgets, staff, costs, management, administration: Do you know what? You know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. Human rights are priceless, and we on this side of the House will vote this through, because a negative vote will do the dirty work of those Member States that want to obstruct this Agency and do not want to be held accountable for their human rights record. Commissioner, I am with you."@en1
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