Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-24-Speech-3-227"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Outcome of the World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference (Cancún, 10-14 September 2003)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030924.6.3-227"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-24-Speech-3-2282
lpv:speaker	lp:Luis Berenguer Fuster2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-30--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2003-06-30--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2003-06-30--2004-07-19)3 substitute; ECON (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Member States of ASEAN, south-east Asia and the Republic of Korea (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Mrs Lucas was right when she said that this is not the time to look to the past, but rather we must look to the future under all circumstances. It is true that, following the failure of Cancún, this is the right time to consider the dangers facing us now. The first, and I am saying nothing new, is to dedicate ourselves to saving multilateralism within commercial relations. We must be careful when we say that we must reform the World Trade Organisation. We must say how we want to reform it, because we must not think of reforming the World Trade Organisation in such a way that it begins to function like its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which, at the end of the day, made decisions in accordance with the wishes of certain commercial giants, without taking account of the importance of other countries. Also, when we say that ‘we are going to reform the World Trade Organisation’, are we as Europeans going to accept a reform in which the European Union has no right to veto, or is the United States going to accept that type of reform? The World Trade Organisation therefore functions with all the problems we know about, but, at the end of the day, it is the best instrument we have for international trade. Secondly, I would like to stress the importance of the birth of the Group of 21, which we wrongly believed was going to be dissolved like a sugar lump in water. I do not believe that we should attack that Group of 21, but rather sit down with them, accepting what they are, a giant like us, which represents more than half the world’s population and their specific weight must clearly not be underestimated. Finally, we must act in a balanced and coherent fashion. Commissioner Lamy is right when he tells us that it is one thing to make declarations and quite another to take decisions which affect thousands of millions of citizens. It is true that we must reconcile solidarity with some of our least-favoured sectors, such as the rural population or certain types of production, with solidarity with the least favoured countries. We cannot say that we are going to adopt one line while forgetting the other, because, until we are capable of finding that balance, it will be difficult for us to continue making progress."@en1

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