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"Minister's statements can not go through the ring," said PvdA MP Lilianne Ploumen. She wants to have a debate next week with the members of the foreign affairs committee and the minister. "This can not wait after the summer."
PS MP Sadet Karabulut calls Blok's explanation letter "vague". She supports the request of her colleague PvdA. "The last word has not yet been said about it," says Karabulut
The VVD Coalition parties, CDA, D66 and CU are satisfied with the VVD Minister's explanation. With respect to VVD and UC, the House does not return from recess. & # 39; Aanstoot & # 39;
Minister Blok sent a letter to the House on Wednesday in which he reacted to statements he made at a closed meeting last Tuesday and fled via the television program Zembla .
He stated among other things that he knew no peaceful multi-ethnic or multicultural society. According to Blok, it would be genetically determined that different groups can not coexist with each other.
He also called Suriname a bankrupt state and he did not believe that the EU member states would agree to the redistribution of refugees, because the "people of color "are literally" beaten "there. He also said Singapore only allowed migrants "to clean up".
million. Blok wrote in the letter to Parliament that he regretted that his remarks were offended. He confirmed that the government's policy on equitable redistribution of refugees between EU member states remains unchanged.
In addition, he acknowledged that Suriname is not a failed state according to the international standard in force. The term failed the state means that a state has no control over the country. According to the Fragile State Index Suriname does not belong to any of the countries that can be classified as such.
Harmful
"It is strange that we have a Minister of Foreign Affairs who has the concept of a did not understand the state of failure ] ", says Özdil, who does not read in the letter that Blok took up the contents of his words. "We still do not know what he thinks about the content of his statements," says GroenLinkser. "I do not reread if he thinks his words are wrong, harmful and unwanted."
Ploumen: "He regrets the offense, but I want to know if he regrets his statements and resumes them." The deputy from the PvdA wants the minister to focus more specifically on what he said about peaceful multicultural societies that, according to Blok, would not be. "Does he think that different population groups can not live together?"
That's what the SP wants to know. "It goes so far as what the minister said," says Karabulut. She thinks that Blok justifies xenophobia by his statements. "He denies the diverse society." The SP is of the opinion that the statements made by Blok are detrimental to the appearance of the Netherlands abroad. On Thursday, The New York Times The Washington Post and The Financial Times wrote about Blok's statements.
"Blok places the Netherlands internationally on the absolute right of the political spectrum," said Karabulut. Ploumen: "The Netherlands, you must appear differently in the international media The Minister of Foreign Affairs is our highest diplomat and he should certainly have an opinion, but not this one."
The Labor Party believes that the Netherlands coexists peacefully, but there are certainly problems of integration and discrimination. "We discuss these problems with each other, which should be the message abroad." She points out that the Netherlands is an open economy that brings a lot of money abroad. In this view also, Blok's statements are not sensible according to Ploumen
D66 under pressure
The VVD coalition parties, CDA, D66 and CU consider that Blok's explanation in the letter is sufficient . Han ten Broeke, member of the VVD: "Blok clearly said that he regretted it, and that's the end for me." CDA also believes that the Minister has provided sufficient explanation. The MP Joel Voordewind did not want to answer the questions of NU.nl, but let him know by SMS that he finds the letter of Blok "a good reaction".
MP D66 Kees Verhoeven, who made the statements Wednesday "Incomprehensible" mentioned, did not want to answer questions from NU.nl.
Meanwhile, the pressure on D66 increases. AD reports Thursday that a group of D66 members of his parliament demanded that they ask for "sincere apologies" from Minister Blok
"Blok represents the government of which we we are also part of D66, "says the signatory Maurice Pahladsingh, who has Dutch-Surinamese origins. "We are talking about something very fundamental, we believe in a multiform and multicultural society, and his words are felt throughout society, they hurt me too." Although you are here, but I do not think you can help. can deliver to society, "says Blok.
This feeling also recognizes SP's er Karabulut. She has received many reactions from the Surinamese-Dutch community. "People are affected by this, Blok's words are a misunderstanding of the role that the Netherlands had as a colonizer in Suriname," says Karabulut.
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