The European Union’s own external action service website states that the EU believes that democracy is the only political system that can fully realise all human rights. Would it not be a useful exercise for the Welsh Government to encourage the United Kingdom Government to remind Spain, as a member state of the European Union, that it should live up to the principles that the European Union’s external action service said are embedded in the founding treaties, reinforced by the charter of fundamental rights, and that are fully declared as a result of the Lisbon treaty incorporating that charter into European law? A Government, like the Government of Spain, that is afraid of the votes of its own people at the ballot box is a precarious institution indeed, and this Assembly, of all institutions, ought to stand up for the rights of small peoples or small nations to self-determination, if that is what they wish. Like the Cabinet Secretary, I believe in the United Kingdom, but if the people of Wales were to vote for political independence, that is a right that should be expected and Catalonia deserves nothing less than that.