Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-29-Speech-4-057"
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"Mr President, we are certainly all delighted that China, huge and poor as it is, is getting its act together and developing. At the same time, it is also important, however, to draw attention to the abominable conditions in the social and environmental spheres. Emphatically, something must be done about these. I hope that most of us can agree that it is not only the EU that has a big responsibility but that action should be taken within the system of international agreements. It is, then, the WTO and the rule of law principle that should govern development and not arbitrary quota arrangements, which too easily bind the poor countries into relations with their old colonial powers that are reminiscent of slavery. If we are to make our presence felt in the WTO, we need to be trustworthy, but people are only trustworthy if they are worth trusting. It is somewhat incriminating, moreover, that we only remember about all these rules when it is what we ourselves produce that is to be protected. If these rules really were to apply, we could not import a drop of oil from Saudi Arabia, which does not of course have even the first clue about human rights. However, there is never any talk about, for example, human rights and the environment to be heard in relation to Saudi Arabia. We need to strengthen our position within the WTO by opening up our markets rather than by coercing the poor countries. The rich countries need to have open markets, and we need to make demands: demands in terms of the ILO and demands that the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the other environmental conventions be observed. That is absolutely the only way that is practicable, and it is also the way that, in all conscience, we must keep to."@en1
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