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The resolution tabled on the relations between the states of the European Union and Asia (the ‘ASEM process’) has one positive aspect. It confirms that the importance formally attached to human and democratic rights must not remain a dead letter, that the progress achieved (or not) in this field must be assessed at regular intervals and that political consequences must be drawn from these findings. It also calls for strengthening the inter-parliamentary process, so that the governments and heads of enterprise do not have a monopoly over the Asia-Europe 'dialogue', by involving the elected institutions. All this could help us strengthen the impact of independent and cooperative intervention by the social movements and the citizens of Europe and Asia.
Yet the resolution also has a very negative aspect. Paragraph 26, which called for respect for the ILO agreements on trade union rights and workers’ rights, has been deleted. ‘Migratory flows’ are once again associated, in the same sentence, with ‘transnational crime’ and ‘terrorism’. The resolution also wants to impose, as a ‘priority’, respect for the ‘world trade order’, in other words, submission to the dictatorship of the WTO and neo-liberal dogmas. In that spirit, it highlights the ‘central role’ that is to be devolved to the ‘Asian-Europe Business Forum’.
I therefore abstain on this resolution."@en1
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