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Mr President, the fight against hunger and poverty is still, needless to say, one of the greatest challenges of our time. People claim, with good reason, that there is a connection between the provision of aid, debt relief and trade, and that actions in those three areas should complement each other. Today, I should mainly like to focus on the trade aspect.
The ability to integrate in the world economy is beneficial to all countries, whether rich or poor. By way of concrete example, we could juxtapose comparable countries, for example South versus North Korea, or the Asian tigers versus the South-Asian countries. A free, fair and development-minded multilateral trade system is indeed an effective mechanism in order to drive back poverty and hunger. The European Union, in particular, must guarantee the poorest countries better access to the world market by granting priority to capacity-building and technical assistance, thus enabling trade to generate as much development as possible.
The WTO’s next ministerial meeting in Hong Kong in December will be a crucial test to see to what extent the rich countries are serious about giving the poor countries a good chance of being able to integrate fully in global trade. Doha has been presented as the ideal development round and after Cancun, we cannot afford a second failure.
Whichever way, further liberalisation of world trade is a basic condition for more economic growth, both here and in the developing countries. In addition to aid and debt relief, a correctly liberated market is a very important, if not
most important, instrument for distributing prosperity in the world more effectively and more evenly and for narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor."@en1
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