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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9567

18 December 2007
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/japan
Tribute to “comfort women” used in World War II

Strasbourg, 17/12/2007 (Agence Europe) - In a joint resolution by the EPP-ED, PES, ALDE, Greens/EFA, GUE/NGL groups, adopted on Thursday 13 December, the European Parliament expresses solidarity with the women used as sex slaves or “comfort women” during Japan's colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific islands. Although it welcomes the apologies presented by the Japanese parliament in 1995 and 2005 to the war victims, including the “comfort women”, as well as the...

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