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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner De Gucht, the resolution that will be passed by the European Parliament gives you a clear mandate in this critical phase of the Doha negotiations: you must press for a positive interim result at multilateral level in Geneva that will contribute to a reduction in the poverty suffered in the world.
Everyone gathered here today recognises the status quo, which is why we must have an eye to the future – as Mr Taylor has just said: do you remember the start of these talks? The Doha Round was instigated 10 years ago in the shadow of the attacks in New York and the intention was to contribute to an improvement in living conditions in developing countries by further developing the WTO, thus eliminating the basis for the propaganda of hatred. However, the Commission’s negotiators and those of its competitors are mainly concentrating on the opening up of the global markets for services and penetration into previously protected sectors of general public interest. Developing countries were able to come together within the WTO to prevent this opening up from being forced upon them.
In turn, you responded by switching the emphasis to the conclusion of bilateral agreements that enabled you to pursue your chief interests more effectively. This approach has patently failed to help reduce poverty. It actually threatens the establishment of a system of fair trade rules with worldwide validity under the umbrella of the WTO.
For this reason, my group urgently calls on you to return to the primacy of multilateral agreement. The least you should do in Geneva is to obtain an agreement for the so-called least developed countries package, which would bring improvements for the world’s poorest. We would also call on you to withdraw the Commission’s threat to abandon the promise to abolish the EU’s export subsidies for agricultural produce should the Doha Round fail. In view of the present catastrophic famine in East Africa and the increasingly difficult situation of the farmers – not just in the developing countries, but there in particular – it is actually necessary to speed up the abolition of export subsidies."@en1
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