Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-10-Speech-3-052"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-04-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU strategy towards China2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020410.3.3-052"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-10-Speech-3-0532
lpv:speaker	lp:Ilkka Suominen2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 unknown; Kansallinen Kokoomus (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; EPP-ED (1999-09-30--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, my congratulations and thanks go to my colleague, Mr Graça Moura, for a balanced and thorough report. China is a very important trading partner for the EU, not least for my own country, Finland. Nokia, for example, already employs more than 4 000 staff in the manufacture of mobile phones. It is important that China joined the WTO at the Doha meeting. It is important for the outside world, but still more for China, which must clarify many of its laws and its rules over the next few years to be able to implement all the requirements for membership. WTO membership will also lead to social and political pressures in China. How China is to solve these problems fairly is of course an internal matter but I agree with the rapporteur that in the longer term programmes jointly implemented in cooperation with the EU, Japan and the United States of America will be desirable to solve the employment and social problems of the country’s vast rural area. It is in our interest and that of the world as a whole that China should be a stable, open and prosperous society which we will support if and when it moves further towards democracy and a free market economy and embraces the principles of human rights and the rule of law. We are pleased to welcome China’s involvement in the international effort against terrorism and the rapprochement between China and India. I believe that the values we hold to be important here in Parliament – democracy, the rule of law, human rights, equality and pluralism – will also gain ground in China if we maintain a vitally interactive relationship and encourage China to open up in all respects and permit its citizens to enjoy the freedom of modern communications media and allow them the right to become unionised and freely express their opinions."@en1

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