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"Mr President, may I first congratulate you on the leadership you have shown when it comes to Egypt.
What we did yesterday, the United States is only coming forward with today, so well done European Union on that front.
However, I have to ask myself as a member of your taskforce, which went with the mantra of ‘more for more’, what does that mean?
What has happened to the Egyptian women who were tortured, raped and sexually abused in Tahrir Square on 25 January? Today they are now presented simply as ‘women who asked for it’. That quite clearly is unacceptable.
What does our ‘more for more’ mantra mean?
When I look at the Coptic Christians and minorities, they are targeted, they are fleeing, they are persecuted. Rather than seeing hope spreading through the region, today I see nervousness only.
When I met with their Parliament on two occasions, I heard the sort of language they speak, and as one Lancastrian to another, you will know the very cool-headed approach that we take.
I am sure Commissioner Füle, who was a witness to one of those parliamentary..."@en1
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