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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I shall be very brief, because I know that voting time is approaching. First of all, I wish to thank you for all your contributions to this debate, including the critical contributions, and clarify two points of criticism I think are important. First: with regard to the comment by Mr Nassauer, the Commission has not abandoned the principle of the safe third country. It has not abandoned this principle at all and in fact we are working, in Council, on a definition of a safe third country and I am sure that, as Mr Nassauer said, Mr Schilly will continue to be as tough a negotiator on this matter as he always has been. With regard to the second aspect, I should like to remind you that the Commission has given itself the task of reviewing its proposals in light of the international situation that has arisen following the terrorist attacks in the United States of America. The review is now underway. We shall undertake this task with the utmost rigour and the results will be submitted to Parliament. The Commission does not take a positive view, however, of the implication that there is a link between terrorism and immigration.
The Commission has put forward proposals that respect rights and seek to manage migratory flows. There are also proposals on combating illegal immigration. Any attempt to portray the Commission
as having no initiatives on fighting illegal immigration is unfair. The proposal for a framework decision against trafficking in human beings adopted by the Council last week is a Commission proposal. The communication on illegal immigration, the communication on repatriation policy and the communication on the joint policing of borders have been on the ‘scoreboard’ since May 2000 and are part of the Commission’s work programme that was submitted for debate in this Parliament this year. These are not the result of emergency measures arising from the terrorist attacks; they are an integral part of this Commission’s coherent and consistent immigration policy.
Lastly, I wish to thank Parliament for its support. I hope that, with the clear ideas that have emerged from this debate, the Laeken European Council will be able to take a step forwards. These measures provide added value at European level and I thank the European Parliament for its contribution."@en1
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