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Mr President, I should like, briefly, to revisit a number of points. Firstly, I should like to re-emphasise that this summit was not, as I see it, in any way a failure; on the contrary, it allowed us to make significant progress. As I said before, the EU insisted on quality and on putting together a package that really does enable us to push through our concerns and our values, which are of course very important to us.
The big question is how difficult questions are to be dealt with. This year has already seen us asking ourselves this question, and it was decided that it was important to set clear priorities, to be open, to deal with all problems, and to stick to common positions – and we succeeded in doing all of this, which was an important step and a positive one. This was something to which the Commission attached particular value, and I am glad that all the Members of this House helped us to achieve this goal. The issue at stake here is the finding of mutual interests, but this presupposes care before links are forged, and must be founded on values rather than on interests.
One example of a success is that at the WTO negotiations we came to a bilateral agreement on private transport to and from Kaliningrad. As already noted, we have set up two sub-committees, which I believe is important, and this has been approved by Russia. We have major tasks ahead of us, which include migration, visa issues, returns and cooperation in border regions.
I should like to reply to Mr Staes, not having done so before as there was of course a lot going on at this summit. I can tell him that Mr Barroso made it clear to the Russian delegation that a political solution in Chechnya does of course enjoy support from Europe, the Commission and the entire EU."@en1
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