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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank you for your excellent cooperation in helping to draw up this resolution and I look forward to a positive and beneficial exchange of views in the final discussions. I am convinced that international trade needs a strong and powerful World Trade Organisation. The economic and financial crisis has shown that existing commercial law has protected most Member States from protectionist measures. This is a genuine success, even though some trends are evident in the opposite direction. The WTO, and with it the entire system of commercial law, is a major gain. It is essential that the previous approach of intensive global cooperation should continue and that further integrationist steps should be taken in this area.
It is with regret that I see the lack of progress and the fact that the Doha Development Agenda may fail. However, we must also understand the following: the countries involved in the negotiations are no longer the same ones who were at the table when the Doha round began 10 years ago. We have all changed in this time, which is why the discussions should be resumed on a sector-specific basis.
Personally I believe it is unrealistic to stick to an all-encompassing draft plan. However, we can make the best of the situation in which we now find ourselves, thus avoiding further damage. The European Union in particular needs a strong WTO. We need to strengthen it because we are going to need it more than ever in the future."@en1
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