Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-16-Speech-3-147"

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dcterms:Date	"2001-05-16"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010516.4.3-147"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-16-Speech-3-1482
lpv:speaker	lp:Bordes, Cauquil and Laguiller (GUE/NGL )2
lpv:translated text	". We are not against the decision aimed at ‘giving unrestricted access for all LDC products except arms and munitions to EU markets’ because there is no reason to impose customs duties at the European Union’s borders on products from the poorest countries. It is clear, however, that this measure, which is presented as benefiting the poorest countries, will mainly benefit the multinationals established in those countries, which are generally the only companies to produce and sell on the international market. It is a sign of the hypocrisy and pretence in this field that there are only three products for which implementation of this decision is deferred: bananas, sugar and rice, i.e. the three products for which production and marketing is in the hands of powerful trusts, each fighting the other for control of the international market. That makes it all the more clear that the implied suggestions that this measure may help the poorest countries to ‘develop their technological capability so as to be able to export finished products as well’, in other words that these countries have a chance to develop, are simply a con. That is why we abstained. The report rightly notes that the gap between the 48 poorest countries and the others ‘grew even wider’. The development of these countries, in which a large section of mankind lives in indescribable conditions, would require a distribution of wealth at international level that is totally incompatible with a world economic system based on inequality, exploitation and the plundering of the poor countries for the profit of the capitalists in the rich countries."@en1

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