– Avant le vote sur l'amendement 7:

  Vytautas Landsbergis (PPE-DE). – Madam President, my oral amendment is to paragraph 8, which urges the Chinese authorities to stop discrimination against various groups. My proposal is to insert, after ‘trade union activists’, the words ‘Falun Gong members’. These are people who practise a particular kind of movement and breathing, but they are treated as dissidents and persecuted by the Communist authorities.

(L'amendement oral est retenu)

– À l'issue du vote:

  Reinhard Rack (PPE-DE). – Frau Präsidentin! Wir haben heute relativ viele wichtige Abstimmungen. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist es wirklich nicht notwendig, dass Herr Cohn-Bendit permanent mit seinen Kommentaren und seinen Gesprächen diese Abstimmung begleitet und stört.

  José Ribeiro e Castro (PPE-DE). – Madam President, I would like to draw attention to the fact that we have just rejected an amendment asking for the release of someone we nominated for the Sakharov Prize. The next time we award the Sakharov Prize, in December, we had better give them a set of chains and they can go straight to jail!

(Loud applause)