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9 January 2011

Van Bommel wants Dutch presence at mass trial of Turkish Kurds

SP Member of Parliament Harry van Bommel is urging Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal to send observers to next week’s mass trial in the Turkish Kurd town of Diyarbakir. On Thursday 13th January hundreds of democratically elected Turkish Kurd politicians and political activists will stand trial on charges of membership of a terrorist organisation despite the fact that the political party involved, the DTP, is not banned. Van Bommel describes what is happening as a ‘political trial that does not belong in a country that wants to join the European Union. The Netherlands must condemn this.’

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7 January 2011

Van Bommel: ‘New Afghanistan mission is military in nature’

The SP is strongly against the proposed new military mission in Afghanistan on the grounds that the context in which it will take place is one of war. ‘There’s no other way to describe these conditions,’ points out SP Member of Parliament and Foreign Affairs spokesman Harry van Bommel.

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3 January 2011

Foreign minister must put pressure on Egypt

SP Member of Parliament Harry van Bommel has asked Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal for his comments on the attitude taken by the Egyptian government to minority groups. Van Bommel’s request follows the horrific New Year’s Day attacks on Coptic Christians in Alexandria, in which twenty-one people lost their lives. ‘This attack is no exception,’ Van Bommel explains. ‘Egypt should do a much better job of protecting minorities. I want the Foreign Minister and his European colleagues to bring pressure to bear on Egypt to respect human rights.'

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