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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to congratulate my friend, Mr Kaczmarek, on his good report and his generous flexibility in accepting the amendments I tabled to his initial draft.
After saying that I agree with a great deal of what has been said here and the text that we will vote on tomorrow, I would like to express some pleasure, some concern and a few ideas on the work that Parliament has done and will continue to do through the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
I am pleased with the work done by Louis Michel, as co-President of the Assembly, and by our friends in the Commission, led by Mr Piebalgs, for the interest and care they have shown and their characteristically straightforward, sincere and efficient participation in our work.
However, I am concerned that, absorbed by the rest of their work in Parliament, our representatives are becoming noticeably absent from the Joint Assembly, the work of which we are discussing here today.
It seems clear to me that members who give priority to other concerns should take a good look at the situation and either give their work in the ACP-EU Assembly the importance it deserves, or make way for other members who may have more time to devote to this activity.
Furthermore, I feel that Parliament itself should place more focus on this area of work and understand the political importance of the Cotonou Agreement, which is the most representative example of North-South cooperation, involving almost 80 developing countries around the world, as well as the 27, soon to be 28, Member States that make up the European Union.
At a time when world governance needs to be coordinated on a multilateral basis, our ACP partners offer enormous political potential for organising joint actions on the international stage.
Parliament should also pay greater attention to the resolutions that our delegates adopt with our ACP colleagues in the Parliamentary Assembly. We should not continue adopting all kinds of resolutions on Parliament’s behalf without any note being taken of these texts, at least by the relevant parliamentary committees.
Appropriate measures should be studied to ensure that Parliament knows what is being debated and adopted in the ACP-EU Assembly, so that the texts it adopts in the same areas are consistent and do not give rise, as can sometimes happen, to significant discrepancies that are frankly disconcerting for our partners."@en1
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