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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation for the EU/Latin America Summit (Madrid, 17/18 May 2002)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020515.1.3-017"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-05-15-Speech-3-0182
lpv:speaker	lp:Charles Tannock2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, one of my ancestors was the captain of a ship sailing between Scotland and Valparaiso, Chile. Sadly, he drowned on one of those hazardous journeys. So trade with Latin America is long established between my country and this great continent. It therefore gave me great pleasure to attend the EU-Latin American Parliamentary Conference in the same city last April. I am hopeful that Chile will shortly become the most recent signatory to a wide-ranging cooperation agreement with the EU, as Mexico – whose President Fox is visiting us here in this House today – did following the first summit meeting in Rio in 1999. Recently, Latin America has been very much in the news. We have had President Carter's reconciliation visit this week to Cuba, the sole remaining communist dictatorship; the farcical short-lived coup in Venezuela against the maverick President Chávez; the sad economic meltdown that we now see in once prosperous Argentina; as well as the ongoing tragedy of Colombia, racked by guerrilla war, political assassinations and illegal drug trafficking. Nevertheless, in spite of these problems, I retain a degree of optimism that Latin American countries will eventually realise that to reach western-style prosperity and security they will have to put aside their petty divisions – which are small compared to the linguistic and cultural differences that we face here in the EU – and unite in developing strong and stable functioning market economies, based on the Rule of Law, good governance, democracy and human rights. Initially the EU will have to negotiate bilateral treaties, but I am convinced that in the longer run a Latin American free-trade area drawing on the lessons of the Mercosur and Andean Pact countries' experience will emerge over the next decade. This will itself be subsumed eventually into the free trade area of the Americas, as agreed by the USA and the Latin American heads of state and government in Quebec last year. It also established for the first time embryonic clauses on human rights and democracy to which all the states signed up except, shamefully, Venezuela. I therefore welcome the second summit of the heads of state and government of Latin America, the Caribbean and the EU in Madrid on 17 May. I wish it well in its challenging project of bringing about much closer cooperation between these two great regions of the world."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Tannock (PPE-DE )."1

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