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"Mr President, this is a very difficult debate for me to take part in, as you can imagine, as an openly gay man. In Ukraine, the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are not respected; anti-discrimination measures do not cover LGBT people; and a new report is going through committee that would make it illegal even to discuss in a positive way what it is to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
What is it to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender? Actually, it is to be the ordinary son or daughter of ordinary men and women, and our lives are made extraordinary by the discrimination and the persecution with which some have to live. So, in an ideal world, I would send this report back to committee – but I do not believe we would get the necessary majority. Am I therefore prepared to play around with the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Ukraine, Russia and elsewhere? Sadly, no: I am not prepared to take that risk. I am prepared to say to Ukraine that the liberalisation measures that we offer you now represent the end of the road. There will be no further liberalisation of the facilitation agreement or the issue of visas if you continue to have these laws on your statute books. This is your last opportunity to reform (Mr President, please allow me this) – your last opportunity, because when Parliament next has an opportunity to revise this, we will take the requisite measures and we will not flinch."@en1
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