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"Madam President, I think the Chamber has genuinely done a good piece of work on this resolution. I would explicitly praise Mrs Schaake for the work she has done in coordinating the different groups in its production, because this is a solid resolution that we have before us, where it could have been the blankest of blank cheques and the most mixed of mixed signals, because there were enough people trying to make it so.
The subject is too serious for petty politics. The fight against terrorism and the cooperation of the EU with the League of Arab States, as outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding, is a serious subject that deserves to be taken as seriously as indeed we have done, except that the Memorandum has not been published. This surely sends the worst possible signal to our partner countries within the region. Within the resolution, in Recital D, we highlight that fact and in point 3 we explicitly call for its publication. There is cross-party support for that. I would be grateful for an explicit reaction to that call this evening.
More widely, it is not a toothless resolution either. In Recital I, we refuse to turn a blind eye to the shortcomings of our partners in that there are serious and systematic violations of human rights in member countries of the Arab League states, because we cannot turn a blind eye to their failings. We also, in point 5, state that the solution to radicalisation is not simply military. The roots are far more complex than that, and any solution must be multifaceted and much more sophisticated in nature. In point 9 we explicitly say that counter-terrorism measures may never be abused to repress legitimate dissent. That again is a nod to the practices of some of our partner countries. In point 11 we stress the importance of cooperation between the EU and the League in the field of human rights because there are things to build on. We must do that by example.
The regimes in charge of the Middle East and North Africa are indeed important partners and we do indeed need to deal with them. We do have a common aim. As we say in point 2 of the resolution, terrorism poses a direct threat to all countries and all people, regardless of their ethnic background, but our duty is to our values and to the people of the region, not necessarily the regimes in charge."@en1
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