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Marthoz, Jean-Paul


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Le Soir - Bélgica | 27/05/2008

Untrustworthy UN Human Rights Council

Essayist Jean-Paul Marthoz criticises the tolerant attitude of the United Nations Human Rights Council toward undemocratic states, and questions the institution's significiance: "The UN Human Rights Council still has seven months to honour the year 2008 in which we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Last week the ambiguous nature of this body founded in June 2006 was highlighted when several states with dubious reputations joined. ... The Council was silent on Tibet during the session in March. It ended the mandate of its expert in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as if the crisis there had been resolved. It embraced the good will of the Sudanese government regarding Darfur while the rioting there continues. ... In this mood of dissimulation and hyprocrisy, the Council's decisions are often one-sided, biased ... and bereft of true moral force."

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Le Soir - Bélgica | 25/03/2008

Beijing poses a problem for European values

"The reactions of western democracies to the repression in Tibet have clearly shown the limits of their foreign policies when faced with more than just a little rogue state like Burma, but with a large political power whose economy partly determines the word's financial stability", considers the essayist Jean-Paul Marthoz. "The 'politics of values' that European countries proclaim thus seem guided by a convenient and unconvincing distribution of roles that delegates the right to indignation to institutions stripped of real power and reserves the right to denounce for the leaders of the opposition. On the one hand, the president of the European Union, German Christian-democrat Hans-Gert Pöttering, has evoked the possibility of a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games if the repression continues; on the other hand we have European sports ministers ruling out any sanction. So virtue and morality go to Parliament, while reality and interests are defended by the Council and the Commission..."

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Le Soir - Bélgica | 10/10/2006

Anna Politkovskaya's murder: how should the West react to Russia?

A group of four Belgian researchers and journalists are urging European leaders to demonstrate greater firmness with Russia. "Dictated by short-term geopolitical and economic interests, the European policy towards Russia is fading in favour of the unilateral diplomacy of its members. Bland and lifeless, the Union is bolstering the President Vladimir Putin with the consolidation of his system and, in so doing, renders even more difficult the restitution of fundamental democratic rules in Russia. The assassination of Anna Politkovskaya has shown how much indifference, mixed up with Realpolitik, on the part of European chancelleries resembles complicity ... . We are asking our leaders to firmly voice the truth facing their Russian counterparts in order to end this impunity."

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Le Soir - Bélgica | 07/03/2006

The loss of 'Europeans values'

"When Europeans are bemoaning their misfortunes, they occasionally console themselves by stressing the great admiration that the European project inspires beyond the Union's borders," writes Jean-Paul Marthoz, editor of the quarterly magazine 'Enjeux Internationaux'. "Let's pretend to believe in this 'European exception', in this innate commitment to democracy, human rights, peace and tolerance. Let's take a passing glance at current events: the image on the glossy page becomes all warped. Silvio Berlusconi cooing before Mussolini's granddaughter, the kings of Poland feasting with the their country's most obscurantist forces. ... What 'Europeans values' are we talking about? ...  There is another Europe that also lays claim to 'European values' in order to proclaim itself superior to others and lower the draw-bridges. ... A Europe of darkness."

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