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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I think that almost everything which needed to be said about the work of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly during 2004 has already been said by previous speakers, following the excellent report submitted by Mr Bowis.
As far as I am concerned, given my recent membership of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly, I propose to make only three very brief points.
The first concerns the very limited response by civil society to the work of the Assembly. I do not believe this is something we should consider as inevitable or normal. Virtually no attention is being paid to it by the European public, which seems mistaken to me, in view of the fact that this type of experiment is original – indeed unique –in the world. We should perhaps reflect on this fact and plan to achieve a genuine step change in the future.
The second point is related to the first and concerns the need to broaden the political dialogue, bringing it increasingly into the public domain. Bearing in mind the current world situation, there is a powerful need to re-establish an open and frank dialogue between the countries of the North and those of the South. The experience of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly has been a positive one from this point of view, albeit not without its problems. We need to make progress decisively and patiently in the field of human rights and towards a strengthening of the International Criminal Court, in order to achieve greater mutual understanding.
The third and final point concerns the need to understand that greater political trust between the European Union and the ACP countries can also be achieved by the parallel creation of a firm base of economic relations, able to provide substance to the Cotonou partnership agreement. This aim should also be seen in the context of the reform of the sugar regime, achieving a fair balance between the interests of European and of ACP countries."@en1
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