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"en.20111215.23.4-259-000"2
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"Parliament was consulted today on the proposal aimed at including the commercial provisions for textiles products in the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the European Union and Uzbekistan. This bilateral agreement expired on 31 December 2004. Whilst in practice the trade in textiles between the Union and Uzbekistan has continued smoothly since 1 January 2005, this issue has become more politically sensitive than the strictly technical nature of the proposal would lead one to believe. In fact many accusations of forced labour have been made, in particular accusations of child labour in Uzbekistan's cotton production sector. I therefore voted for a suspension of the approval procedure so that the International Labour Organisation (ILO) can carry out new investigations into the real situation regarding forced child labour in this country. Above all, I have therefore demanded that the ILO observers be authorised to monitor the child labour situation and that concrete reforms be completed so that the practice of forced child labour may finally be brought to an end."@en1
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