Roberta METSOLA, EP President, gives her introductory statement ahead of the plenary session in Brussels: opening remark on the Uganda new anti-LGBTIQ+ law. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

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EU - Uganda (T)

METSOLA, Roberta (EPP, MT, EP President)

Fundamental rights (T2)

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Resumption of session and order of business: opening remark by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, on the Uganda new anti-LGBTIQ+ law

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, EP President, Colleagues, I was asked by several Members to raise again the issue of the new so-called Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda. The bill includes the death penalty for aggravated homosexuality. It criminalises sex education for the gay community and makes it illegal not to expose what it calls perpetrators of aggravated homosexuality to the police.

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, EP President, This is deeply worrying and undermines the rights of people in Uganda. And this parliament has reaffirmed time and again that people should be allowed to live as they wish to live, be who they wish to be and love as they wish to love. I want to show my solidarity and that of this parliament with the people in Uganda and reiterate what we know to be true, that in the end love wins.