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"Briefly Chair, I have heard that answer, and it does not convince me that these minimum standards are going to be raised at this Seville meeting of the Millennium Round. Quite frankly it seems to me that we shrink away from many of the issues just because it is the WTO. We have to have some answers from a European body as well. We have to know where you stand precisely on these issues. They are clearly issues central to the liberty and wellbeing of ordinary people around the world and they affect us directly in the products we buy. We should do more about that. We clearly also have links with ILO which have been tested here to the extreme. They have called for many of the things we are talking about.
Just one more thing Mr President: if we want an answer to some of these things, just look at the way the WTO has reacted to the Canadians taking the asbestos ban that occurred unilaterally in France to the WTO. Asbestos is a killer dust which is killing tens of thousands of people in this Community and is going to the WTO, and we are not afraid to take that issue on. We should not be afraid to take on other issues of core labour standards as well. I remind the Council of this and wish that they should do just that."@en1
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