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"Mr President, I was in Geneva recently, on behalf of Parliament, at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights and I welcome paragraph 58 which reaffirms our own Parliament’s commitment to that issue. The Commission, in its action plan on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in 2011, invited all Member States to bring forward national action plans. It is regrettable that we approach the end of 2015 and only seven have done so.
It is slightly ironic that we led the argument on this in the world and that countries like Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and, last year, the United States agreed to follow our example and yet some of our own Member States are failing to do so. I invite Mr Lambrinidis and the Commission to do everything possible to get Member States to honour this commitment, perhaps by getting those who have made action plans to help those that have not in a peer review process.
Secondly, in Geneva I was dismayed that we are still continuing, as Europe, not to attend the working group on a binding legal instrument. I know there is strong opposition on this issue, but on other issues, like the working group on private security companies, we may not agree but we attend. This is not right for European diplomacy and once again I ask for us to review that policy."@en1
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