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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office, Mr Costa, Commissioner, the Portuguese Presidency clearly has an extremely full range of responsibilities over the next six months. I would like to add my best wishes for a successful outcome in them all.
The priority to which all of them are directed is clearly the enlargement of the European Union, an enlargement different in scale and nature from any previous enlargement. We also know that the external affairs of the EU extend into Eastern Europe, and the action plan for the common strategy in Ukraine has already born fruit since the Helsinki Summit with the announcement of the abolition of the death penalty.
Foreign Minister Gama’s opening sentence in his address to us this morning touched on the importance of public opinion and on reassuring the people of Europe. I have just one question which the President-in-Office could perhaps touch on in his reply. Would he give a reassurance that his concern about public opinion includes public opinion in the applicant countries of Central and Eastern Europe. He may not feel that this is the appropriate time to give details of what initiatives he has in mind to ensure that not only is the momentum of negotiations maintained, but support in the applicant countries is also guaranteed. I would be grateful for that reassurance in his reply."@en1
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