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"Mr President, I would like to thank the Members of Parliament for the commitment they have shown to pursuing the very challenging and demanding agenda of Tampere, and also to testify to and praise the efforts of the Swedish Presidency to achieve concrete results during the first half of this year. It is quite clear from the Swedish Presidency that there is a real concern to have a balanced approach to policies in this area – a balance between those initiatives dealing with the repressive aspects and those which have a pro-active aim of encouraging a positive view of asylum immigration in our societies. Therefore, I hope that at the end of the Swedish Presidency we will have concrete and good results on the basis of which to proceed.
Very briefly, to touch upon two points: first, on the action plan for Iraq, I share the view that it is extremely difficult to implement this action plan. The sooner we get a more detailed assessment of the concrete results of such an action plan, the better. We also have to bear in mind that one candidate country, Turkey, is a neighbouring country of Iraq. So we should engage Turkey more seriously in the debate on the Kurdish situation and on the effect of illegal immigration in the area.
My second point is to say to Mr Pirker that I did not touch upon the issue of drugs in my presentation, because there was no question tabled about it. However, I would draw the attention of Parliament to the fact that we are implementing the 2000-2004 Action Plan. There has been a very important Swedish initiative on synthetic drugs. We had an open debate in the Council on drugs and the Commission intends to present two main instruments: one, the framework decision for harmonisation of criminal law in fighting drug trafficking, will be presented next month. The second one is to put before the Council and Parliament what we call a follow-up table for the action plan on drugs. In that follow-up table we will include all the actions that need to be taken by the Union, and also identify all concrete actions that should be taken by individual Member States. So we are not neglecting the drugs issue. We did not touch upon that point, because you did not refer to it in the formal questions, but I am glad to announce to you our programme as far as combating drugs is concerned.
My final wish and hope is that maybe next year we will have a more cheerful debate on the state of play in the area of freedom, security and justice. Let us all work together to that end."@en1
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