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We have voted against the joint resolution based on a recital which, behind its hypocritical wording, suggests that relations between Asia and Europe are conducted between equal partners.
Most Asian countries still bear the scars from their past ‘partnerships’ with the major powers, particularly those in Europe.
Was the centuries long relationship between Great Britain and India a partnership between equals? Or that between France and its colonies in Indochina? Or that between China and all the great powers that attempted to dismember it into areas that suited their respective interests?
In addition, in very recent times, the poor masses in a number of countries in South-Eastern Asia have had to pay a high price for their ‘partnership’ with the speculative capital interests which have swarmed all over their region.
In view of the past, in view of the current economic relations between the developed major powers and the poor countries of Asia, speaking of ‘equal partners’ for the future is, at best, a pious hope, and, more probably, a means of concealing exploitative relations behind pseudo-democratic and pseudo-humanitarian phrases.
It is precisely because we are in favour of developing genuinely fraternal cooperation relationships between genuinely equal partners, between all the countries of the world, that we have no intention of endorsing this double talk by voting in favour."@en1
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