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"Madam President, there are, in particular, two aspects of the four groups’ resolution that I welcome: its affirmation of the multilateral in preference to the bilateral which, with its quotas and such like, always results in the developing countries being the losers; and, secondly, the EU’s obligations in relation to the developing countries. These are the two main points of departure.
Next, I should like to thank Mr Désir for his constructive amendments. The proposal rapidly to phase out the industrialised countries’ agricultural subsidies is particularly constructive. We in the EU must accept that it is the developing countries that still need to have their production subsidised and that it is we who must phase out our own subsidies. Agriculture is the weak point in this resolution, however. There is no demand for lower agricultural customs duties in the EU, and there is no support for Mr Mandelson’s latest offer.
Finally, it is crucial that the industrialised countries agree to pay a higher price than the developing countries for a WTO agreement. Moreover, China and Brazil must, of course, also be counted as developing countries. It is in these countries that half of the world’s poorest people live, and it is unacceptable to say that these countries do not belong to the poor part of the world."@en1
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