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"I spoke at some length yesterday evening in the deepest hours of the night about Parliament's views on TACIS and I set out those amendments that we were able to accept. I pointed out that we agree with many of the ideas underlining the amendments Parliament has put forward. I said these would be reflected in the text. I noted that reasons of form prevented me from accepting the specific wording now advanced in many cases, but in particular I noted that we fully agreed with Amendments Nos 4, 5, 8, 22 and 32 as well as parts of Amendments Nos 1, 14 and 19.
I should like to make one point which I hope Parliament will take in good faith. The conclusions of the European Council at the weekend met the sort of views that were being expressed in this Parliament the last time we debated Russia and Chechnya, at the last part-session. We have proposed a way of taking TACIS forward which does not penalise other countries and which makes a distinction between the development of democracy and human rights, on the one hand, and other programmes, on the other. We are not talking about suspending TACIS. We are talking about targeting TACIS on those areas of activity which we think we should still be sustaining. It is a sensible message for this Parliament, the Commission and the European Union to be sending. We can make this work, though as I say there are one or two problems with precise wordings that we will want to come back to."@en1
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