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"Mr President, I should like to lend my voice, last but not least, to the chorus of congratulations to the rapporteur Mr Bowis on his excellent report. He refers to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly as a forum for political dialogue several times in his report, and also encourages this Joint Parliamentary Assembly to strengthen the political dialogue and its own political role. He demonstrates that we have improved in recent years and during recent sessions and, in section 6, welcomes the fact that we have achieved compromise amendments and compromise resolutions with our partners among the ACP states. I should like to add, however, that it was not always the ACP states that insisted on a split vote, it was sometimes our groups, when there had been no majority vote at the plenary sitting of this ACP Assembly.
As has already been said several times, the creation of the Standing Committees is a good basis for improving the political role of the Joint Assembly, and I concur with what Mr Schlyter said: that we must consider how to improve their working methods. They provide us with the opportunity of discussing our requirements in greater detail, and also of following up our political requirements as appropriate. Following up the requirements – what has become of them, what has been transposed – is at least as important as setting them.
I believe we must consider how to fix the dates for these committee sessions, for, as has also been said before, it is disgraceful how few of us are able to participate. This is not, of course, because we are unwilling to take part in them; in reality, though, when the committees of the European Parliament are meeting at the same time, we have to attend those, sometimes in order to take part in important votes."@en1
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