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"Mr President, it is interesting that this law in Russia started in 2006, but the responsibility for it must be taken by the Thatcher Government which introduced such a law in 1987. It came into force in 1988. To quote another bisexual, Shakespeare, it is a brilliant demonstration that ‘the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones’.
In 2011, building on that 2006 law, we saw a federal law adopted. Then last year a federal law was adopted called the Foreign Agents Law. This also brings the suppression, not only of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their NGOs, but of other human rights defenders, LGBTI people and other minorities, and it brings the suppression and oppression to new heights. Under the Foreign Agents Law, nine organisations are currently under legal charges, 18 received official orders to eliminate violations by registering as ‘foreign agents’ and 53 organisations received warnings not to violate the law. These legal restrictions are coupled with harassment, intimidation of human rights defenders and civil society representatives. Harassment: they are stigmatised as enemies of Russia and its traditional values – whatever they may be – when they defend the rights of ethnic minorities, migrants and LTBT people.
But let me say that these laws do not reflect decent Russian values. They reflect Putin’s ever-tighter hand of steel. It is a dictatorial style in which opposition voices are silenced and minorities shunned. The Russian Government therefore needs to respect its human rights obligations, including the European Convention on Human Rights. But, Commissioner, let me call on yourselves, the College and the External Action Service to do two things. Firstly, to continue monitoring developments in Russia using the LGBT guidelines and engage in dialogue often and without concession – and this includes at political summits and human rights consultations and maybe even Winter Olympics. Secondly, I would like the Commission to consider delaying visa liberalisation with the Russian Federation. We must not give them gifts on the back of those who are being discriminated against and suppressed. I look forward to your answers to those two specific calls."@en1
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