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Madam President, I just wish to make a few points about this debate.
The first is that we share the same concerns about this election process. We have seen that the freedom of the press and freedom of expression are sometimes violated and we must follow this whole process very carefully. However, I can say that the European Neighbourhood Action Plan – which is not yet ready as we have only just begun negotiations – will provide an opportunity to promote democratic reform. It will also enable us to make many of our offers conditional upon further democratic reforms and respect for the rule of law. I agree, however, that with the new oil possibilities, it will not be as easy as we previously thought, because there will be more wealth in the future.
Secondly, I recently held talks with the three countries of the Caucasus in New York during the Millennium Summit and the Ministerial Week. We also discussed the question of these flights. We hope that there will be a change. The situation is very clear and I was very adamant. We are now waiting for a high-level troika to come back to see how we can start these negotiations on the action plans.
On Nagorno-Karabakh, we are ready to deploy a rehabilitation programme once a settlement is reached on the peace plan. It seems – and this is what I heard when I spoke to the two ministers – that there are some positive developments. I hope that this will happen after the Azeri elections, on the one hand, and the Armenian referendum, on the other. It is a very complicated question. I myself have often witnessed positive developments, for instance in 2000, when I was chairperson of the OECD. In the end, a stalemate was reached once again. However, there are possibilities and we would like to explore them.
Let me also say that we currently have a fully-fledged delegation in Georgia, and a regionalised delegation covering Armenia, while we intend to open a fully-fledged delegation to Azerbaijan in 2007. We wanted to open a regionalised delegation but the Azeris refused. They only wanted one of their own. It is also a financial question regarding funding for the external service. I hope we will get some funding under heading 4.
Finally, on radical Islamism, our message to President Aliyev was also very clear. We said that he would really be opening the way for radical Islamism if he did not allow the political opposition any breathing space. I gather from this debate that we all agree on that. I hope that the Azeris will hear our message."@en1
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