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"en.20151217.5.4-087-000"2
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"Mr President, in 2008 Mohamed Nasheed was elected President of the Maldives, bringing an end to Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s 35 years of dictatorship. Nasheed stood on a platform of promoting democracy, secularism and the rule of law. Nasheed did much to enact such a programme, as well as to address the long-term problems that this small island nation continues to face from global warming and rising sea levels.
Nasheed was replaced in what is widely accepted to have been a coup. Today, Gayoom’s daughter is the country’s Foreign Minister and his half—brother Abdulla Gayoom is President. Not content with targeting opposition figures from former President Nasheed down, the administration has resorted to arresting its own members. Following what was allegedly a staged assassination attempt on Gayoom, his Vice-President has now been arrested and charged. As freedom of the media, expression and association are clamped down on, Gayoom appears to be reconstructing a one—party authoritarian state, based on the model of his half-brother, and pandering to local Islamist radical influences.
Today’s resolution calls for the European Union and the Member States to consider the implementation of targeted sanctions and travel bans against leading members of the Government and their financial backers. Anything short of this will fail to secure the release of former President Mohamed Nasheed and to bring about the change that this small country so desperately needs."@en1
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