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"Mr President, first can I welcome and support European leadership in the global fight against the death penalty and against torture, on promoting LGBT rights in the world, and on support for the UN guiding principles on business in human rights.
There have been some consistent concerns from Parliament to the EEAS on this report over the years, which we reiterate today. There must be more evaluation, less description, and there should be greater use of benchmarks to measure and to foster progress. And this year, in particular, there remain serious questions as to how far the EU’s refugee policy fully upholds human rights. But I do not want to bash the European Commission on that, the needs of the refugees themselves are too important. Nor do I wish to do so on the Commission’s widely publicised failure to carry out the human rights impact assessment required in the EU-Vietnam trade negotiations. But I do ask for an honest reflection of whether this demonstrates a mind-set that these assessments may be conducted normally on trade agreements, but for their own sake, and that they do not truly inform the trade policy which follows. A serious commitment to human rights merits a serious reflection on that question."@en1
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