Human Rights
Dail Éireann — 2020-07-28
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Simon Coveney (FG), Cork South-Central

I do not see a situation in which the Chinese Government will invite monitors from the EU to monitor officially the implementation of legislation that the Chinese Government regards as a domestic matter. That said, in everything that happens in Hong Kong, I think the EU will monitor very closely how demonstrators, who are legitimately expressing concerns through protest, are treated. That will certainly inform how the EU will over time respond to the implementation of legislation about which many of us have expressed significant concern.

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Sitting date: 2020-07-28