Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-10-27-Speech-3-096"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-10-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU–India relations2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041027.7.3-096"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-10-27-Speech-3-0972
lpv:speaker	lp:Marcello Vernola2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Forza Italia (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; SEDE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we fully agree with the statements made by the Commission and the Council, as well as the rapporteur’s report. We believe that India, which is today the largest multicultural democracy in the world, should be a strategic partner for the European Union in defining new international political alignments to ensure peace and security. We therefore fully agree with the recommendation that the Council should, at the fifth EU-India Summit on 8 November, identify India as a strategic partner for the Union. A multilateral approach that also focuses on closer collaboration within the United Nations should be a central objective of the European Union’s foreign policy, with which we are today coming face to face with the approval of the new Constitution. That is why, if India is a strategic partner, we must ensure that the conditions are right for India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir dispute in a peaceful and civilised manner. I am not suggesting any useless external interference but something much simpler, giving as much helpful and welcome support as the European Union can provide based on its own experience in matters of foreign policy. We hope, therefore, that cooperation can go much further. The European Union is in fact India’s largest trading partner, but India only ranks fourteenth for the countries of Europe. There is thus a need for greater investment in economic cooperation among our enterprises, in research and in sustainable development. We think that the proposals put forward for the establishment of a Centre for Indian Studies through collaboration between the European Union and India, the possibility of holding cultural weeks to coincide with India-EU summits and designing a strategy to make the European Union better known to the Indian people should be fundamental. That is why we hope that the Indian Parliament will come and visit the European Parliament as soon as possible. It has been too many years since that happened, and we should instead develop much closer interparliamentary cooperation between our countries."@en1

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