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"Mr President, Commissioner, thank you for reminding us of Cancun’s common theme – the integration of the developing countries. Thank you, too, for matching words with deeds in one or other area where the WTO ought to act differently. If we want to show solidarity with the South and with the most fragile populations of our own area, we cannot treat health, education, water, energy or the necessary progress in sanitation systems as mere commodities. People in all countries must have the benefit of reasonable prices for what are really public services to humanity.
The negotiations on GATS need to change course. The right to healthy food in sufficient quantity is also a common good of humanity. Farmers of the North and the South must be able to support a perspective of true multifunctionality. Rural development, the very symbol of the non-market sector, and which will be as crucial an issue tomorrow as it is today, is in fact part of the reorientation of the CAP as just adopted by the Council. It reinforces the adjustments that are a positive signal for our small farmers and for those of the countries of the South. But if you can rely on the start of the decoupling affecting cereals products or meat, then export subsidies must be less obvious and must continue to be less obvious. The distinctive nature of European farmers must be protected. But if solidarity with the small farmers of the South is to be clear, they must be allowed to benefit from support systems similar to the CAP, which still protects European farmers. The prime task of both of them is to feed their fellow citizens by freely producing the appropriate food. They must be helped to do so in the face of the two or three agro-industrial monopolies."@en1
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