Situation in Russia

22.6.2006

ORAL QUESTION H-0614/06
for Question Time at the part-session in September I 2006
pursuant to Rule 109 of the Rules of Procedure
by Milan Horáček
to the Council

Does the Council Presidency consider that a strategic partnership between the EU and Russia is compatible with the European values of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, which Russia does not respect, as the following examples indicate: the violation of freedom of the press, restrictions on civil society through the NGO law, human rights violations in Chechnya and the conditions of detention of Platon Lebedev and Mikhail Khodorkovsky?

 

 

Tabled: 22.06.2006

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