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"Madam President, as Parliament’s rapporteur for Moldova, my focus is on what Commissioner Füle called a summit which could deliver our shared priorities in Vilnius. Like our rapporteurs, Messrs Saryusz-Wolski and Panzeri, I hope for the signature of an Association Agreement with Ukraine and the initialling of similar agreements with Moldova and Georgia. The efforts and the determination of these three countries are noteworthy.
For Moldova, the negotiations for an agreement were finalised in June, and recently the country has overturned the gay propaganda ban, a move which distinguishes it from its eastern neighbour.
Georgia achieved a peaceful transition of power in parliamentary elections and prepares to elect a new president this month, which I hope will give an impetus to reform by ending the difficult period of cohabitation.
Ukraine has shown its willingness to meet our concerns through the mediation of Pat Cox and Aleksander Kwaśniewski. In so doing it has signalled its will to engage with the Union and the importance it places on Europe.
But neither our eastern neighbours nor we should rest on our laurels. We must continue the hard work towards the goals we share, and that is why Moldova must engage more actively in political reform and focus on anti-corruption efforts; why Georgia must continue the reforms of its judicial system and its work on minority rights; why the Union, and in particular the Commission, should work hard to finalise the legal texts so they can be signed as soon as possible; and why the Member States and Parliament must put the interests of the people first and not slip into party-political infighting.
Russia’s pressure on our eastern partners and now on one of our Member States must be resisted at all costs, for – as this process shows – President Putin is on the wrong side of history. Lithuania’s Presidency can score a success at this summit, and I hope that Commissioner Füle has kept a good diary so that he can publish an interesting memoir."@en1
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