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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, aviation in general has been a life-long interest of mine, if not to say passion, and it is 40 years since I started flying myself. I always have been and still am proud of the fact that this field of human endeavour – and I refer in particular to air travel – can serve as an example of effective and broad-based international cooperation, in which such things as ideological differences are overlooked. Amongst other things, this ensures that air travel is in fact the safest form of transportation.
For these reasons in particular, I will on the whole be happy to vote in favour of today’s reports. Their aim is to step up international cooperation, which will help make aviation better, safer and more efficient. I cannot, however, lend my full backing to one of the reports on account of the recommendation made in it to block Russia’s accession to the WTO
because charges for flying over Siberia have not been abolished. Let there be no mistake; I am not an advocate of the charges as such, since they do not represent a logical solution. As I see it, however, it is intolerable that what amounts to a threat should be used against a sovereign state and that one obstacle should effectively be removed in order to make way for another that in my opinion is much more serious. I am in favour of tough and transparent negotiations, but they should be negotiations nonetheless."@en1
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