Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-29-Speech-3-032"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The Hague Conference on Climate Change2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001129.6.3-032"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-29-Speech-3-0332
lpv:speaker	lp:Jorge Moreira Da Silva2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-11--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (2000-02-17--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2003-10-05)3 unknown; Partido Social Democrata (1999-07-20--2003-10-05)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as Chairman of the European Parliament delegation to COP­VI, I wish to begin by expressing my pleasure at the excellent relationship that has developed between the Commission and Parliament over this last week. If there is one area in which there has been no lack of unity, it is in this relationship. I am bound to regret the fact, however, that the will of some ministers of the 15 Member States has been directed more towards racing to attend press conferences than creating a genuine spirit of unity that will guarantee a global policy on climate change. Madam President, we knew that this COP­VI would be of particularly great importance: it represented abandoning the stage of discussion in which we had been stuck since 1992 and moving on towards action. Since we were not able to reach an agreement, we failed in our objective of moving on towards action. To put it frankly, if we have to make an assessment of what took place, we could say that out of the three parties participating in the Conference, only one tried to reach an agreement and tried to achieve a global policy on climate change, and that was the European Union. The United States – but let us also state quite clearly that it was the entire “umbrella group” – concocted a whole series of excuses for not reaching any type of agreement at COP­VI, in The Hague. By May, by Bonn, the European Union must take action on two fronts: firstly through diplomacy, since the scenario that the United States will ratify the agreement is the least likely, and so diplomatic action must be developed with the other members of the umbrella group. Secondly, we must act within the Union in order to guarantee our credibility. Only if we have this credibility will the European Union be able to lead the debate and the action at COP­VI “B” in Bonn."@en1

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