

Russian People Record Vote for Natural Family as France Postpones Artificial Births for Lesbians Row

*Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Due to Enter into Force Tomorrow (4 of July) in Russia, is also a landmark Constitutional Amendment for Natural Family, with Marriage between a Man and a Woman, (therefore favorable to Natural Births too), which was Just Voted by a Record High Super-Majority of 78% of Russian People, after an, Also, Exceptional 65% Turnout among Registered Voters, and a Public Campaign of many Months (since before January), Despite the Virus' Pandemic,
almost at the Same Time that France Postponed sine die a Controversial planned attempt to Impose, in catimini, Artificial Births at the Demand of Lesbians, in an UnPopular and Nowadays Risky for Humankind, OutDated Pre-Electoral 2017 alleged Concession to some LGBT Lobbies, apparently Manipulated by Shady Technocrats' Groups, as Genetic Manipulations on Human Embryos crossed, Meanwhile, very Dangerous "Red Lines" on 2018-2020, (See Facts reminded Infra)...
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These Same Days that the Important Final Round of French Municipal Elections for New Mayors throughout All Cities in the Country didn't attract But Only a Minority of almost 40% of Registered Voters, (Less than in the 1st Round !), and Even the Politically Crucial Parliamentary Elections in Croatia, due to Chose the Government of the Counry, Also fell in a Minority Participation of Less than -50%, for the First Time since the 1990 Elections of the "Democratic" Period, as noted "Wikipedia",
it's Only the "Hotly" Disputed Polish Presidential Elections, with a Big Turnout Close to 64%, and these Russian Constitutional Amendments' Vote which Succeeded to Attract a Super-Majority of Popular Participation up to More than 65% of Registered Voters...Both included a Key Issue on Natural Family !
+ In Addition, this Widely ReNovated Russian Constitution of 2020 was Supported by almost the ...Double of Voters, than the Previous one, Dating from 1993, with more than 57,7 Millions of People Now, Instead of Only Fewer than 33 Millions then !
For the 1st Time, even ...Cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin Voted, up from the International Space Station, thanks to a New, Special Digital Technology, ensuring Direct Broadband Communication to Russia, withOut Risks for the Secret of Voting, as "RosCosmos"' Chief Rogozin, reportedly announced...
>>> As for the Record-High Positive, "Yes" Percentage with a Super-Majority of 78% of the Voters, it was succesfully obtained Now,
Despite an "UnPrecedented" level of various "Attacks", mainly of "Foreign" origin, as Denounced Valentina Matviyenko, Speaker of the Russian Federation Council (Senate) : She Citted, f.ex., among others, also "DDos Attacks on the Central Election Commission's (CEC) Websites", "especially from Foreign Internet Accounts", in Addition to "a Flow of Fake-News and Lies, Far Away from Reality", together with "Doctored Videos which attempted to Provoke a Negative ambiance vis a vis this Vote", (etc).
=> The Russian Federal Council will Draft "a Report on July" about such a lot of Facts of "brazen Interference in Rusia's Sovereignity and Domestic Affairs, Violation of Laws, and Spreading of Fake-News", that will be Drafted and Discussed by the competent "Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignity and Prevention of Interference in Russia's Domestic Affairs, chaired by Andrei Klimov, a Top MEP well Known at CoE's HeadQuarters and in EU Parliament in Strasbourg, (Cf. Various Matvienko and Klimov Statements to "Eurofora", earlier, f.ex., at: ... ..., etc). Already, the Commission "Officially Denounces the Fact that the ... Vote on Amending the ...Constitution was among the Targets of a Foreign Attack", with "Various Illegal Campaigns Forced on us", seeking "to Discredit ...the Amendments... and the Procedure of the Vote", through "Mass Medias outlets, Social Networks Controlled by the West, NGOs and Activists who Constantly collaborate with Overseas Organisations" Abroad, etc. According to Klimov, some "Western Countries, headed by USA, have been Deliberately pushing an illegitimate Interference in the Sovereign Costitutional process, Since mid-January".
It's true that this 2020 Russian Constitutional Reform is Not a Usual one, but quite Original :
- F.ex., in Addition to Power Structure Issues, (as on the Presidential Mandate, on Strengthening Parliament's role and Government's Accountability, Boosting a Constitutional Court, Priority of the Constitution over International Treaties, etc), it Also contains a lot of Socio-Economic Issues, (such as Pensions' revalorisation, Minimum Wage's level Guarantee, support to Affordable Quality Health Care for All, etc), as well as Key Society-Wide Matters, (f.ex. on Science, Culture, Historic Truths, Language, Children and Youth, "Care of all Generations of a Family for Each other", etc), including even Popular in Rusia references to "Ideals and Belief in God", Natural Family, etc.
- According to Presiden Vladimir Putin, the "Changes will enshrine Key Values of the Russian People in the Constitution". Kremlin's Spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, indeed, stressed that "the Difference ...in 2020 was that, Now, more Substantive Amendments" have been proposed. -"The situation is Different. Now the Focus is made primarily on those Amendments, which strengthen the country’s Sovereignty and Social nature of our State". "Those Focal Points which come to the Forefront ... are the Most Important for the Citizens , as was seen during the Public Discussion ...of these Amendments.", he reminded.
=> - "For me, the Most Important Amendment is that which stabilizes Marriage as a Union between a Man and a Woman !", has interestingly stressed Duma's vice-President, Pyotr Tolstoy, Head of the Russian Delegation of MEPs at CoE's PanEuropean Assembly in Strasbourg...
+ Indeed, that's the Only Popular Issue which has Already brought moe than 1 Million Citizens to repeatedly Demonstrate at the Streets of France, particularly on 2013-2014+, against Attempts to Impose the Controversial and UnPopular so-called "Same Sex Marriage", then Notoriously Pushed by Former POTUS Barack Hussein Obama, exerting Pressure throughout all Europe, and accross the World, even by Bullying Poor Countries in Africa and elsewhere ! And, mutatis-mutandis, Similar Ideological, Social and Political Movements were, notoriously, Shaking also USA's internal Debates, among Conservatives and Simple People, at least up to 2016+...
>>> It's true, however, that the PanEuropean Convention of Human Rights, (whose 75th Anniversary is due to be celebated on Novembe 2020 in Athens), in its Article 12, explicitly reserves to "Men and Women" the "Right" to "Marry" and "found a Family", with a Crystal-clear Defense of the Natural, Traditional Family between a man and a woman, (and, therefore, to Natural Births of Children, too).
Nevertheless, already, Various, Indirect but potentialy more or less pernicious or even Dangerous, Attempts to "Interpret" and/or "Apply" the ECHR in Nowadays' Challenging situations, particularly coming from Overseas, (especially during Obama's era : Comp. Supra), have notoriously Started to, more or less, Bypass, Diminish, Undermine or Marginalize that ECHR's consecration of the Natural Family, (Even if Nobody Dares yet ask to ... eventualy Modify that PanEuropean Convention Openly : Something apparently Impossible !).
=> That's one reason more, for which Several EU Countries, (such as, f.ex., Poland, Latvia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, etc, followed also by an Attempt in Romania, etc), had Recently started to, precisely, introduce the explicit Consecration of Natural Family inside their own National Constitution, (as, Also, several USA's Member States). A Movement succesfuly Extended Now, on 2020, Also to Russia...
For the 1st Time in History, Meanwhile, Russia had become very Popular even among ...Conservative American Nationalists, of the Right, (including Intellectuals, Politicians, and Simple People), precisely Because of President Vladimir Putin's Defense of Natural Family, to the point that a large Global Conservative Movement on Christian Families, (HeadQuartered at USA's Illinois), naturally promoting the Traditional Marriage, had even Decided to, Exceptionaly, Organize its Bi-Annual International Conference in Moscow, back on 2014, (where, it was Hindered, at the Last Minute, by the "Sanctions" imposed on Russia under Pretext of the provoked Conflict in Ukraine, during Obama's/Biden's era)...
+ Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin had been Criticized by some LBTG Activists, but became Popular among the Majority of Russian and Other Countries' People, for having, notoriously, "passed a Law Banning the Propaganda of Homosexuality among Minors" since 2013, as he recently reminded himself. - "So What ?", he questioned Nowadays. "It's no big deal ... Our Position is Clear" : - "Let People Grow up, Become Adults, and, then, Decide their own Destinies", he reportedly pointed out. Homosexuals, as such, indeed, are No More Oppressed in Russia since 1999.
++ And, concerning Children, “as far as ‘Parent No 1’ and ‘Parent No 2’ goes", (the Names often Technicaly used vis a vis a "Same Sex Marriage" : See Infra), ...- "As long as I’m President this will Not happen. There will (Always) be Father and Mother !", Vladimir Putin promised, according to Reuters.
>>> However, even Famous Black Singer Richie Havens, who had Opened the "WOODSTOCK" Rock Festival of 1969, with his UnForgetable Song "FREEDOM", (Inspired by an Historic Negro Spiritual song "MOTHERLESS CHILD"), apparently, Fell, Nowadays, Victim of Blatant... CENSORSHIP by some "LGTB" Extremists, who ... Systematicaly ERASED, in allmost ALL Versions Published at the Web of the "LYRICS" of his Song, the WORDS : " - "WHEN I NEED MY FATHER, HEY, FATHER !"... ("I can Call him up from my Heart"), and some Vandals went as Far as to Erase Also the WORDS ..."MOTHER, HEY, MOTHER !"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ0I0SRW9_U&feature=youtu.be
This is an Astonishing FACT, that "Eurofora" was genuinly Surprized to Find out these very Days, while Searching, at the Internet, for the Full Text of that Landmark, Historic "Woodstock" Emblematic Song of the UnForgetable "Sixties"... Only a somehow Marginal, ...German (sic !) Website, had a Real Full Version of Haven's Song's Lyrics, with the Simple WORDS "FATHER" and "MOTHER", Together with "MY HEART" and "FREEDOM", as it Really was in the Original, World-Famous Song of the Emblematic Black Singer at the Historic "Woodtstock" Festival !
>>> Such an Incredible Oppressive Incident, coming Exactly the Years 2019-2020 that French People and others are Desperately Struggling to Prevent a very Dangerous for Humankind, Electoralist Reform, pushed by some LBGT Lobbies, Manipulated by Shady Technocats' Groups (See Infra), which Threatens to Impose, for the 1st Time in History, Thousands of ARTIFICIAL BIRTHS of Children, at the Command of Lesbians, WITHOUT ANY Known FATHER, through an AbNatural Process Exclusively CONTROLLED BY TECHNOCRATS, (a Social-Moral Conflict which had Already Filled Paris' Avenues Last Year with Hundreds of Thousands of Popular Demonstrations Denouncing, precisely, the abnormal, InHuman and Dangerous Imposition of "FATHERLESS CHILDREN", (an EMBLEMA of those Popular Movements), Obviously is a Blunt Warning of the Horrible, Anti-Democratic Fact that such kind of Brutal Web "ATTACKS" just Denounced by Presidents Matvienko and Klimov at Leningrad and Moscow (Comp. Infra) regarding the Popular Vote on Russia's New Constitutional Amendments, including that Landmark Support to Natural Family, most probably are part of Nowadays' Reality, where some incredibly Anti-Democratic Wrong-Doers have, Obviously Fallen Down to Abysmal Lows, in Attempting to MUZZLE the PEOPLE...
=> As such things go, the NEXT STEP would, Probably, be to Completely ERASE at the Internet EVEN THE WORD ..."MOTHER" (sic !) from that Emblematic Richie Haven's "Freedom" Song at Woodstock Festival's Historic 1969 Opening, (which Notoriously stems from the Traditional Negro Spiritual Song "MOTHERLESS CHILD"), When such Extremist "LGBT" Lobbies, (as Always, Manipulated by some Shady TECHNOCRATS), will Start to Attempt to Impose in Europe even the Horrible "SURROGATE MOTHERS"' Exploitation (as f.ex. in India, etc), notoriously Abused for Artificial Births commanded by somc "Gays" Couples, but Controlled by Technocrats, through "Sperm Banks" and "Donors", IVF, Transplantations, and, Finaly, Taking the Baby Away from the Woman who helped Make it inside her (Rented) Womb... Indeed, those would Really be, also ..."MOTHERLESS CHILDREN" !
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But, even if some Homosexuality might, perhaps, have existed, more or less precariously, at the Margins of Society, already since Hundreds or Thousands of Years, here or there, Nevertheless, it's Astonishing to find that, Suddenly, it all Started to Radically Change, by a "Coincidence", almost around the (Earlier than Expected) Deciphering of the Human Genome, at about 2.000 AC !
Until then, everywhere, most Homosexuals used to live their own Lives, with their Specificity, withOut Risking to be Humiliated or Ridiculized, sometimes threatened to lose their Dignity, by Attempting to Clumsily ...Imitate the Heterosexual Couples, Pretending to Always be exactly Like them, from almost Any point of view, and at Any Price...
However, after 2000 (Comp. Supra, on DNA sequencing), and, particularly, After a Decade of Former POTUS Obama/Biden era (2008-2017), Suddenly, it all Started to Change, Revealing that, in Fact, what was Really at Stake, it's Not so much the Homosexuals themselves, But, rather, ... the CHILDREN that might, eventualy, be Attributed to them ! And, as Homosexual Couples are, Naturaly, Sterile, it's all about ARTIFICIAL BIRTHS, (since so-called "Adoptions" canNot be Enough), obtained by TECHNOCRATIC Means, f.ex. through Sperm Banks/Donations, IVF, Transplantations, Surrogate "Mothers", etc., i.e. Constantly Exposed to Obvious RISKS of GENETIC MANIPULATIONS ON HUMAN EMBRYOS, (See also Infra)... There, Inevitably, Homosexuals serve Only as a PRETEXT, submerged in a Much Bigger than them "Whirlpool", where it's some Shady Technocratic Lobbies that Dominate, with Obvious Risks for the Future of Humankind... (See also Infra).
In the Post-Obama/Biden USA it's almost Already done, (with a Popular Opposition, however, Eager to Revive the Struggle for Natural Family and Births), But, Nowadays, it's mainly in European Countries like France that it's still on the Making, full of Contradictions, where Everything seems yet Possible : After a Tricherous 1st Stage, around 2000, when "Socialist" former Prime Minister Jospin promised that it will all End, simply, by Giving to Homosexual Couples a special Status of "PACS", for some Basic Legal Rights, came a Brutaly Oppressive 2013-2014+ Period with Former "Socialist" President Holland, when he Imposed, by Force, against a Large Popular Wave of Protests, the so-called "Same Sex Marriage", (However, while Also Delivering Children to the "Authority" of Homosexuals on Pretext of so-called "Adoptions", But Vowing that this was "Enough", and Ensuring that Fears to Fall, subsequently, Even on "Surrogate Mothers" for "Gay" couples, and/or Sperm Banks, IVF and Transplantations for Lesbian Couples, would be an "Exagerated" Nightmare, withOut any link to Reality)...
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+ Nevertheless, Suddenly, just a Few Years Ago, Until, still, These very Days, Some LGBT Lobbies, (as Always Manipulated by Shady Technocrats' Groups), Started to Claim that an obscure Pre-Electoral Promise of President Macron would have been to Absolutely Impose Artificial Births of Fatherless Children by Command of Lesbians through some Technocratic, absolutely AbNatural Procedures, (including, inter alia, f.ex., also Sperm Banks/Donors, IVF, Pre-Natal Tests, Implantations, etc), which would, Inevitably, Not only Cost a very Heavy (but useless and Totaly UnRelated to Human Health) Burden to the already inDebted "Social Security" Budget, but, in Addition, Regularly Abandon several Thousands of Artificially Produced Human Embryos and Babies at the UnControlled Hands of Technocrats, practicaly Away from any Credible Public OverSight, (to the point that they Could be Easily Manipulated in their Genome, withOut Anyone ever Knowing If and What exactly happened, Not even their "Parents 1 and 2" !), with Obvious Risks, Both for them and Humankind, particularly if such Controversial practices Regularly touched upon an enlarging, Key Part of the Population...
- But, such a Controversial Demand wasN't really Discussed during the 2017 Electoral Process, and remained quite Obscure, practical UnKnown, at least to Most People...
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+ Most Important, Many things Happened, Meanwhile, which radically Changed the Situation, and Aggravated the Negative, Dangerous aspects for All the Society, of such a Categorial Demand : In particular, since the Autumn of 2018, we all know that Any petty Technocrat can Manipulate the Genome of Human Embryos until Artificial Births of Mutated Beings whose "Changes" would be Automatically Transmitted to all their Future Generations, (See, f.ex.:..., etc).
=> In such New Circumstances, it has Now Become More UnAcceptable than ever to irresponsibly Submit Many Thousands of Embryos, in Each Country, Every Year, to such Artificial Birth Procedures, which put them at the Mercy of various, UnControlled Technocrats, withOut any Guarantee, Neither Means to Prevent, nor even Know if, and what they might Modify, and/or "Test" in those Human Embryos' Genomes...
The New Risks, by the Emergence of "Gene Editing" and "Heritable Genome Modification" Technologies during the Last Few Years, are so Tremendous, (f.ex., from Provocation of UnKnown yet Health Problems or even Epidemics by Error, to the Fabrication of Man-Animal "Chimeras", or Other Various Monsters, until that of Obvious or Stealth "Races", in a new, Horrible kind of "Appart-Heid", etc), so that the Future of Humanity starts, inevitably, to be at Stake !
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As for LGBT People themselves, it's a Fact that, independently of anything else, they are Our Brothers and Sisters in Humanity : They are Part of Humankind, and Share its Fate, as All of Us, (i.e. All Human Persons, Straight or LGBT).
Isn't it Strange that the "Big Pharma"/"Bio-Tech" Lobby, which did Not give a Damn for them, During many Thousands of Years, ...Suddenly, notoriously Funded Obama on 2009 and 2012, (after a 1st Failed Attempt on 2004), and Started to Back "Same Sex Marriage", even Artificially Produced Children served to "LGBT" customers' Demand, (obviously costing a Price), Since When the Human Genome was Deciphered (i.e. After 2000) ?
In Fact, the First who Risk to Face at least Some among the Negative, or even Horrible, various Consequences of that, are ...the LGBT People themselves, since it's "Their" Children who, in Real Practice, Inevitably risk to serve as ...the First "Guinea Pigs" at Any "Tests", "Trials", and Shady, Irresponsible "Ambitions" of Selfish, Petty Technocrats who Seek to take Control and Power, for the 1st Time in History, over a Growing Number of Unprecedented Artificial Productions of Human Beings, Submitted to the Arbitrariness, or Hypocritical "Good Will" of any eventual New "Dr. Frankenstein", "Dr. Moreau", "Dr. Mengele", or "Dr. He" (that "Socialist"/Liberal US Lobby-Monitored Chinese Technocrat who Manipulated Genetically 3 Embryons, Producing Artificially, 3 Babies with a Modified Genome, Inevitably Transmitted to All Future Generations, on Autumn 2018 : He was Condemned in China to 5 Years of Prison, just 1 Day Before the Deadly Virus' Crisis was Announced : See ...), etc...
As for the much Wider Dangers potentially Threatening Humanity at large, IF Human Beings are Massively Produced through Artificial Tools controlled by Technocrats, Many conscious Intellectuals have Already Warned and Launched "Hot" Alerts, since a Long Time Ago, including, inter alia, World Famous personalities such as Mary Shelley, H.G.Wells, Zamyatin, Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Spielberg, etc...
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>>> So that Important and responsible European Countries such as France, (a fortiori at even at the Highest Level of the State), cannot, and should Not be held "Hostages" of Any selfish Grouplet, (most Probably Manipulated by a Shady Technocratic Lobby),
particularly When, (Even since Before the above mentioned Recent Developments), Already Pre-Existed a ..."Big GAP" Between the People and such Controversial Governemental Proposals, given the Fact that Popular Consultations have clearly Revealed a Strong Opposition from Citizens to Plans for Artificial Births on demand by Lesbians, as even the President of the National BioEthics Committee, Professor Jean-Francois Delfraishy, (currently Chairman of the Anti-Virus Experts Panel), has told "Eurofora", on the occasion of an International BioEthics' Conference at the CoE (See, f.ex., at: ..., etc)...
=> - "Something Must be done, to Address that !", Urged, then, Speaking at the CoE, Professor Delfraissy, making a reference to such Obvious Popular Opposition Against Artificial Births on demand by Lesbians, that "Eurofora" had Also Observed, as a Crystal-clear Phenomenon even at a French National Web Forum specially Dedicated, by the Government, to the Collection of Citizens' reactions on such Topical BioEthical Issues, already since Mid-2018.
+ A fortiori, Nowadays, French President Macron's recently Re-Confirmed Political Wish for a Rapprochment between the Center and the Center-Right, (as the on-going New Government's Reshuffle Confirms), while Advancing Towards the Crucial 2022 Presidential Elections, should, Normaly, Avoid such Uselessly "Divisive" Issues...
Particularly when he has Just stressed, at his Latest big Speech on a Progressive DeConfinement from the Virus and the Need to ReVive the Economy, the Priority must be Now into "Uniting", and Not Dividing, the People.
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Otherwise, Not only it Would be Difficult, if not Impossible, to Conciliate such a Serious and Radical, Structural and Far-Reaching, Social Change with a Formal or informal, Total or Partial, Period of Urgency, (which, according to the ECHR, must be Limited Only into Exceptional, Urgent Measures, and Not at all for Medium-Long Term Structural Reforms),
++ But, in Addition, it's obviously Not so "Democratic" at all, to, eventually, Impose such a Controversial, Radical and Far-Reaching Social and Moral Change, When the People (who had Already Started to Largely Demonstrate its Opposition, with 2 Big Demonstrations, since 2019, and More had been Planned in 2020, Before being Blocked by the "Confinement" Measures related to the Virus), is Still Hindered to make Any Public Demonstration Unless it's with ..."LESS than 5.000 Participants", (Even at Open-Air Space), as the French Top Administrative Court, ("Conseil d'Etat"), reportedly judged Nowadays !
Simply Because, as it's Notorious, the Political Threshhold from which may depend the Outcome was, and stil is, at the Level of an eventually very Massive Popular Demonstration of about 500.000 to 1 Million People, (i.e. as Back on 2013-2014, and Partly 2019), which naturally Requires full Liberty and Time to organize...
If Not, (according also to the Latest reported relevant Statement attributed to a New, Controversial, Minister), that "Hot" Matter may be, simply, "Postponed" ONLY towards the 2nd Half of July (sic !),...
i.e., Obviously "Hidden" in the Middle of a Torrid Summer-time, with the Deadly Virus' Crisis still around, When Most People would have Left for the Usual Mass Holidays, and Even Many Public Services would have Closed, including the Government's Members Dispersed at a Country-side, (etc),
as it was Scandalously and Shamefully Done, Already, Back on 2013, (with a Different Government, Exclusively "Socialist"), when anOther, Exceptionaly Important Reform on BioEthics, (that of Genetic Manipulations on Human Embryos), had been, Suddenly, fixed, (by a Controversial Former Miister, who "Disappeared" Soon Afterwards), Also for the 2nd Half of July, and Even ...at MIDNIGHT !!!
(See: http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/mindightattackonhumanembryoinfrance.html, etc [That Article is an Authentic Events' "Collector's Item", even if in French. But with Stunning FACTS, and a Hard but Superb "MUSE" Song]).
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People in Europe and the World expect from CoE to make a succes of its "Monitoring" for Human Rights and Democracy, despite difficulties, said Finland's President Tarja Halonen to "EuroFora" at a crucial moment for the mecanism built 15 years ago by the paneuropean organization which celebrates its 60th Anniversary in 2009.
Halonen, known as "Mother" of CoE's "Monitoring" mecanism, a long-time MEP and former Foreign Minister before becoming Finland's President, holds a long experience in the mattter, after also serving twice as CoE and EU Chairwoman in the past. That's why she is well placed to judge how CoE's "monitoring" should deal today with some crucial issues of importance both to CoE and to the EU.
The move came just a Month before a crucial, last visit to Turkey, scheduled for June, by the President of CoE''s "Monitoring" Committee, Ukranian MEP Serge Holovaty, to finalize his Report on Ankara, the CoE Member State with the longest Monitoring procedure. From its results depends its overall credibility.
This is a Test-case, because, in fact, it's in order to avoid Sanctions threatened against Turkey by a CoE's Assembly's April 1995 Resolution for grave Human Rights violations, Democracy gaps, the continuing Military Occupation in Cyprus, the unresolved Kurdish problem, Aegean differend with Greece, etc., that MEPs decided to create, for the 1st time on April 1996, a "Monitoring" proces, allegedly destinated to check, without excluding Countries who did not fulfill all CoE's standards.
In the Past, the obliged withdrawal of Greece's Military regime and of its "Civil" cover-up out of the CoE had helped bring back Democracy in 1974. But, on the contrary, since April 1996, the idea was to "monitor" Human Rights' respect while keeping most concerned Countries inside the CoE. After Turkey's oldest example, this was extended also to several former "Eastern" European Countries, even if CoE's Assembly has imposed to some of them (fex. Ukraine, Russia, etc., after Belarus, Serbia, etc) various "Sanctions", that Ankara always avoided. Curiously more succesful even than .. USA itself, (a CoE "Observer" since 1995), which has been at least threatened with sanctions some years ago..
EU-effects of CoE's Monitoring process became obvious between 2001-2008, since the "closure" of this procedure, when CoE felt that a Country had met most of its Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law obligations, (i.e. the "Copenhagen Criteria" for the EU), helped trigger Negotiations with the EU for "Accession" or other closer relations : This occured already before the 2004 and 2007 EU Enlargements to former "Eastern" European Countries, as well as for the commencement of "accession" negotiations with Croatia, and of "open-ended" negotiations with Turkey in 2005.
But a stricking new development are Holovaty's recent findings that on core Human Rights issues as Torture and Freedom of Expression, Turkey, even "5 Years after" CoE closed its "Monitoring", back in 2004, inciting EU to start accession Negotiations in 2005, still presents grave problems.
His findings are of crucial importance after a 2008 CoE Resolution called, "if need be", to "seriously consider the possibility of Re-Opening the Monitoring procedure for Turkey" : A move which might affect Ankara's controversial EU bid, since EU Accession Negotiations are based on the Hypothesis that the Candidate fullfils the "Copenhagen Criteria" (See above)..
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Holovaty expressed his will to check "Matters still Outstanding" and those that he "didn't have an opportunity to discuss" at an earlier visit this year, "in order to discuss the more complex issues in greater depth", at his forthcoming New Visit to Ankara, before the December 2009 EU Summit. This is all based on the 2004 CoE Resolution which stresses that, CoE "will continue.. post-monitoring Dialogue with the Turkish authorities,...in addition to a 12-points list,..and on any Other Matter that might arise in connection with Turkey’s Obligations as a CoE member state".
CoE's Resolution also asks from Turkey "to secure the proper Implementation of Judgements, particularly in the Cyprus v. Turkey InterState case", of 2001, which concerns also the plight of many Hundreds of MISSING People. It adds Turkey's obligations to "execute" ECHR's Judgements in the Loizidou case,..and in particular adopt General Measures to avoid repetition or continuation of Violations found by the Court" to the detriment of Refugees.
Nevertheless, Holovaty said to "EuroFora" that "MISSING" persons,"might be included" and cannot be excluded, but he has yet to examine the situation "to find out which issues will be raised" to the Turkish Government.
Therefore, "EuroFora" asked Halonen, as the Historic "Mother" of CoE's Monitoring mecanism, if she thought that, "whenever there are grave Human Rights Violations, as fex. "MISSING" persons, attested even by ECHR's judgements, they should be always checked by a Monitoring process. Or could they be forgotten ?"
- "We (CoE) must be, at the same time, Fair, Realistic, but not in the mind that "now we have Forgotten", etc., replied to "EuroFora"'s question Halonen, speaking as a matter of general principle.
- "When we think of those People that are suffering from the lack of Democracy, of Human Rights, and of the Rule of Law", "we should find a base on how to deal with the (Monitoring) system more rapidly"', she stressed.
- "Sometimes it's very difficult to combine Transparency and Effectivenes together, particularly in this specific case", she went on to say. But, "I have not found a (CoE Member) Country who could be insensitive in this sens", Halonen answered concerning grave Human Rights violations attested by the ECHR.
- "I have no ready-made answer. I have the expectations that you, in the CoE, will, step by step, find the different types of the monitoring systems."
Also "because this is a part of the UN's Post-Conflict system, (fex. when it comes to Cyprus' MISSING persons), and it's a more Global system". So that, "If we make a succes in Europe, the others will follow", throughout the World. "But they expect that we (Europe) are this opportunity, this Opportunity to make a Succes", Halonen concluded.
In addition, she advised to extend CoE's Monitoring to all its 47 Member States, "because, as long as we hear that, all these monitoring systems are "OK for the neighbor, but not for me", "it's very difficult" to understand. Something which could make easier to Compare...
Finnish MEP Jaako Laakso, former CoE Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories of Cyprus and one of the 5 Signatories of the Historic CoE's call to create the "MONITORING" mecanism since 1996, was more specific : - "We (CoE Assembly) have to find a way for the issue of Cyprus' MISSING People to be better followed", he stressed, anouncing his intention to "speak to Mr. Holovaty" about that. "There might be also other ways", added Laakso.
- The 2008 "Year had been a very Bad one for Turkey with regard to Human Rights in general, and Freedom of Expression in particular", denounced, meanwhile, Holovaty's preliminary Post-Monitoringh Draft Report by Holovaty, published by the CoE on April 2009.
"Amnesty International believes that freedom of expression is not guaranteed given the various articles of the Criminal Code that restrict it. .. "For example, 1,300 Websites are said to have been closed down by the (Turkish) authorities in 2008" ! While "the new Turkish Criminal Code was used to bring a total of 1,072 proceedings between June 2005 and April 2008, and led to the conviction of 192 people", for expressing views. "Representatives of the Özgür Gündem newspaper, which specialises in Kurdish affairs, ..complained about Numerous Attacks on their Freedom of Expression ...as was everyone who advocated a settlement to the question by means other than the intervention of the army" "According to their figures, 19 Newspapers had been suspended 43 times between 4 August 2006 and 4 November 2008" !...
Moreover, on 2008, CoE's "Ministers adopted its 4rth Resolution on the execution of the judgments of the ECHR, ...and outstanding issues regarding 175 Judgements and decisions relating to Turkey delivered between 1996 and 2008... concerning Deaths resulting from the excessive use of force by members of the Security forces, the failure to protect the right to life, the DIisappearance and/or death of individuals, Ill-Treatment and the Destruction of property". CoE's " Ministers urged the Turkish authorities ...to ensure that members of Security forces of all ranks can be prosecuted without administrative
authorisation" for "serious crimes". Holovaty reminded.
"Nonetheless", Holovaty heard anew of "Several cases of Violence committed last year (2008) by the (Turkish) security forces". Amnesty International speaks of Many Cases of ill-treatment and Torture in the prisons and by the police". "Including, fex."'the death of Engin Ceber, a young man of 29 who died on October 2008 as a result of the TORTURE allegedly inflicted on him by police officers, prison staff and members of the gendarmerie. He was part of a group of people arrested on September 2008 during a demonstration and Press Conference in Istanbul'. Proceedings against suspects are "on-going" in this case.
- " I therefore noted an Obvious Contradiction between the Government’s stated “zero tolerance” policy.... of Torture and other forms of ill-treatment, and the different testimonies given", denounced CoE's Rapporteur. Turkish "authorities must make considerable efforts to guarantee that proper investigations are carried out into allegations of abuses by members of the security forces and that perpetrators are effectively punished" "In this respect, I have requested detailed Statistics on the number of Investigations, acquittals and convictions in cases involving allegations of abuse in order to show the positive impact of the measures taken to date", Holovaty said, repeating a permanently unsatisfied CoE's demand to Turkey since a Decade...
- "The Political Crisis that shook the country in the spring of 2008 highlighted the Weaknesses of the (Turkish) Constitution", which comes from the Military regime of 1982, "and the Urgent Need of Reforms", stressed from the outset CoE's Rapporteur in 2009. In particular, "the ...Democratic functioning of state institutions, including the independence of the judicial system, are crucial", he observes.
But, "the Electoral system and the ways in which it is circumvented do not appear to give those elected complete Legitimacy, and tend to pervert the course of direct universal suffrage", denounces Holovaty, observing that, even 5 Years later, Turkey did not yet change the 10% nationwide Threshold for a party to take any seat, which is "far higher" than the "3%" maximum in Europe and already condemned as contrary to European Standards by the CoE.
+ Moreover, EU Parliament's 2009 Report on Turkey, drafted by Dutch MEP Ria Oomen-Ruijten and adopted in Strasbourg on March, expresses "Concern over the Failure of the (Turkish) Judiciary to prosecute cases of Torture and Ill-treatment, the Number of which is Growing". EU also "is concerned about continuing Hostility and Violence against Minorities" in Turkey. It also "calls on the Turkish Government to launch, as a matter of Priority, a Political Initiatve favouring a lasting Settlement of the Kurdish issue, (while "condemning violence.. and terrorist groups"). EU "regrets that No progress has been made on establishing full, systematic Civilian suprevisory functions over the (Turkish) Military".
The final results of Holovaty's 2nd and last visit to Turkley will be known later this year, and, at any case, before EU's December 2009 Summit.