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"Free world trade is necessary in order to increase worldwide growth and help reduce the gulf between rich and poor. However, large numbers of the poor in the developing countries have still not benefited from free world trade. We therefore share the view expressed in section B that the developing countries’ interests and problems must have priority in any extended system of free world trade. The free trade system is urgently required if we are to reduce poverty and create a more just world. We therefore consider that the overarching strategies and objectives, as described in the report, for the forthcoming round of World Trade Organisation negotiations are a step in the right direction in relation to the Commission’s communication.
If, however, the objectives are to become a reality, we should particularly like to emphasise section I, to the effect that agriculture must be one of the areas in the multilateral trade negotiations where new possibilities are opened up in Seattle. We think that what is prescribed in this section must become a reality in relation also to sections 5, 6 and 7. If this agreement is really to become the development agreement which helps reduce the gulf between the world’s rich and poor States, it is not acceptable to reject, in advance, demands from the other Member States in the World Trade Organisation for a change in our agricultural policy at the Millennium Round
To help achieve this objective of reducing the gap between rich and poor States, frontier defences must be lowered and export subsidies phased out. The overarching objective in section 37 ought therefore to be that of completely phasing out customs duties on non-agricultural products. A development like that would be of greater help to the developing countries than the marginal preferences they at present have.
The World Trade Organisation should support the work being done in terms of the global environment by, for example, incorporating basic principles of environmental policy, such as the precautionary principle, into its practice. It is therefore important that weight be given to section 10 in the negotiations."@en1
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