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"Mr President, I am also very grateful for the atmosphere, the debate and the real openness on this issue. I think we have to be responsive to the realities of the time and, fortunately, we now have many more important partners for multilateral cooperation than maybe 10 or 20 years ago. The reality is that Brazil is the only country missing from the BRICS group, one of the five which are regularly invited by the G8 to its summits and a country which represents EU investment equalling the level of investment in Russia, China and India cumulatively from EU countries, so it is a really important partner.
It is even more important to add that the strategic partnership is complementary to overall broader priorities, including cooperation with Latin America and with Mercosur: in the partnership itself, one of the strategic common issues is the promotion of regional integration and an EU-Mercosur Association Agreement.
A lot has been said about the content and some concerns voiced. We addressed them. For example, in the food safety area in the first half of this year, an intensive programme of inspections was carried out, especially regarding beef, fishery products and poultry. We have witnessed significant improvements in food safety, and many deficiencies have been largely rectified, but of course the work will continue, as some of you said, even at political level. The Commissioner will visit Brazil next month to discuss this area, and that is a very important area of closer cooperation.
It is our common cause, our common interest, that the Doha Development Round is concluded successfully. We are doing all we can in this regard on all sides in order to reach the end, hopefully this year.
I shall make a small remark on what could be done in promotion of cooperation with other countries. There is, for example, one area which I wanted to raise as a good case. Brazil is the first country from Latin America to cooperate in our research programme and, via this experience and bridge, I think we can gradually do more in other countries. So it is not against the others; it is one of the leading economies and partners in the area and cooperation is growing overall. It is very complementary to our ambitions to bring more integration to the Latin American continent.
The Commission will keep you duly informed about the process, as requested. We are now awaiting the political response to the communication from the Brazilian side. On the basis of this response, we will try mutually to draft an action plan proposal and then hopefully get this action plan agreed and implemented.
Last but not least, I want to express my gratitude to the Presidency for its commitment and very positive input, regarding not only the first historical summit, but also the development of cooperation between the EU and Brazil and between the EU and Mercosur as a broader area."@en1
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