German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 60/66,
pp. 7696-7697.
Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
Mention was already made of the ratification of the 2008
facultative protocols – it is already some time here – for the international pact
on economic, social and cultural rights.
I am irritated that the two preceding speakers have made
reference to Qatar. Human rights in Qatar are nevertheless not so protected that
we here today are to ratify this treaty.
Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn (Greens): I spoke of Germany!
That lies in the hands of Qatar. And Qatar has not
ratified this treaty. I would wish that you not
tell such nonsense to those who are watching. That is completely misleading.
What shall this facultative protocol make possible? A
grievance procedure will be contrived for individuals and groups which,
subsequent to the exhaustion of national state legal means, will have the
opportunity to lodge a grievance at a UN committee if they feel themselves
violated in their rights. Individual persons and groups? What are groups? NGOs,
that is nevertheless clear. Here is an NGO law. Here, it is about that once
again will be created for NGOs the possibility by means of international organizations
to execute an attack upon the national states. That is the actual aim. – At least
you applaud honestly.
We of the Alternative für Deutschland always put forward two
questions: A law has which uses, and which risks proceed from a law? What are uses
of this? In a two-fold sense: None. The rights dealt with here which have been
defined in the 1973 international pact on economic, social and cultural rights –
which was ratified – are guaranteed and protected in Germany. No one here
present would assert that these rights are stepped on in Germany.
Kai Whittaker (CDU/CSU): Yet you assert it every day!
Thus we therefore do not need this law. Beyond that, it is a
duty of the lawmaker to adjust to where a need for regulation exists. And we
are the lawmakers and not some international organization distant from our
states.
Götz Frömming (AfD): That is so!
Beyond that, risks proceed from this law if we ratify it.
What will happen is that NGOs will make Germany laughable before the United Nations
where, for example, limitations of rights are made a theme in the sense that
they are certainly not limitations of rights if it is meant seriously. I even
see already some sort of crazy gender association which then brings complaint
before the United Nations that here there are no toilets for the fourth gender.
Manuel Gava (SPD): That is precisely the aim!
That is nevertheless to where this law leads. We do not want
precisely that. We do not want that a UN committee decides over what is here
law and statute.
Stephan Stracke (CDU/CSU): That is just not right!
You say: What is happening here is not legally binding, it
is only soft law. – Yet the fact nevertheless is that soft law very quickly
becomes hard law,
Stephan Stracke (CDU/CSU): Now he’s on “soft law”. It’s just nonsense!
by which of course national courts in regards their decisions
draw upon that decision of the next higher level for an interpretation.
Vice-president Aydan Özoğuz: Please come to a conclusion.
Thereby is national law nevertheless again at an end
Lamya Kaddor (Greens): That is pitiful!
and that we reject.
We reject the left-green Agenda which pursues just one goal:
Vice-president Aydan Özoğuz: Please come to a conclusion.
To soften up the national state and democracy for an attack
by international organizations.
I am grateful for the attention.
Lamya
Kaddor (Greens): Good night!
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