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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-03-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Association agreements2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010301.2.4-040"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-03-01-Speech-4-0412
lpv:speaker	lp:Peter Sichrovsky2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; NA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; PETI (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (1999-07-20--2003-02-12)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to congratulate the rapporteurs on these interesting and important reports and to pledge our support, particularly as regards the demand that the European Parliament become more directly involved in the negotiations. Since the US administration has made it known several times that relations with South America will be one of the key points of their foreign policy, improved cooperation between the EU and the Latin American countries has become a necessity for the European Union, not only economically but also in terms of world politics. Hence, the recommendations specified here quite rightly not only contain conditions for improved economic cooperation but attempt to define the problem in terms of a global programme for the EU. Therefore, the recommendations listed in point 2, i.e. the encouragement of the development and consolidation of democracy and the rule of law as well as respect for human rights and the reduction of inequalities between sectors of society and within regions, are just as important as the expansion of trade. The sphere of ‘political dialogue’ needs perhaps to be defined more accurately or, due to the heavily hierarchically structured society which still exists in South America, large sections of the populations will remain excluded from this dialogue. In short, the EU has good prospects with South America, perhaps in direct competition with the United States, though without repeating the mistakes made by the Americans who have justifiably in past decades repeatedly been accused in their relations with South American countries of too often purely defending the interests of power politics regardless of current democratic developments."@en1

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