Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-09-12-Speech-1-048-000"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Keith Taylor2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, earlier in this session we heard a moving statement about the tenth anniversary of the terrible attack on the World Trade Centre. The other anniversary is that of the start of the Doha Round of negotiations towards a trade agreement. I would say that this in fact has killed millions of people – the people in the greatest poverty – or shortened their lives. I think that if we look at the responsibility for that, we see that the WTO has not fulfilled its aspirations to meet the Millennium Development Goals. It has failed the less developed countries in its belief in free trade. What we have in this resolution today is recognition that the Doha Round is dead in the water. It needs to be concluded as swiftly as possible with a package for the less developed countries. We need to concentrate on multilateral agreements because every single bilateral or plurilateral agreement tends to put trade into smaller regional or subregional blocks, and this undermines the multilateral direction which this Parliament believes is the right way to go. Furthermore, I am very pleased to see that the resolution calls for a reform of the WTO, because it is simply no longer fit for purpose. It needs to be revised around the principles of democracy and – bearing in mind that the WTO has never taken a single vote on anything, as it is all done by consensus – it needs to have transparency and accountability. Our Group believes that the wholesale enthusiasm for free trade has ultimately not delivered the promised benefits. We believe that we should be basing WTO reform around trade justice and sustainable development, which should be the watchwords as we develop a new trade body for the planet."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Keith Taylor,"1 "on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group"1
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