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"Mr President, I could not disagree more with the previous speaker, Mrs McGuinness, on the point she made about the poor. The alternative to a successful Doha Round is sadly already emerging. It is a backward step to a world of unequal and exclusive bilateral deals: deals that are already strong-arming many poor countries into accepting lesser terms on market access and intellectual property rights; deals that are leaving the poorest countries out in the cold. I believe that we still can and should go the extra mile to ensure the completion of a round that is truly about development. That will take time. In the short term, as others have said, we need to rescue the gains made at Hong Kong: the landmark agreement to end export subsidies by 2013; duty- and quota-free access for the poorest countries, modelled on the EU’s pioneering ‘Everything But Arms’ scheme; as well as a substantial commitment to expanding aid for trade to improve supply-side capacity and trade-related infrastructures in the LDCs.
I commend the Commissioner on the flexibility he has shown since the collapse of the single undertaking in seeking to salvage the development package – a flexibility again, I am afraid, lacking in some of our negotiating partners.
Amid the stock-taking at the WTO, the recent report of that organisation’s task force on Aid for Trade is timely. It highlights the real need for demand-driven additional aid, aid targeted to enable the poorest countries to participate in the global trading system. Aid for Trade cannot substitute for delivery of the Doha Round, yet, in the intervening period, it remains an important tool to meet the technical and logistical challenges that these countries face in bringing their goods to the world market.
The faltering of the Doha talks and the disillusion surrounding their aims means that Aid for Trade is now more politically apposite than ever. It is in the interests of all countries, developed and advanced developing, to commit funds multilaterally to ensure that the appropriate investments are made in trade-related infrastructure to allow the poorest countries to trade their way out of poverty.
I look forward to the EU – and the Commission in particular – taking a lead on these issues."@en1
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