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"Mr President, I would also like to thank the Commissioner for her ongoing interest and commitment to the issue of the ready-made garment sector, not least in Bangladesh, and I am speaking here in my role as Chair of Parliament’s Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia, and we have followed the Sustainability Compact from the start. This was seen by many as a positive innovative response to the problem so brutally exposed by the Rana Plaza tragedy and indeed has been seen as a potential model for engagement with other governments, because I take the point that Linda McAvan has just made, that Bangladesh is not the only country with problems.
I think many of us would welcome the engagement of the Bangladeshi Government over the years with the Compact, but we want to see that engagement renewed and regenerated because this gives an opportunity for Bangladesh to actually be a leader in terms of sound trades union activity, good social dialogue, responsible production; just as we on our side ought to keep our side of the bargain about responsible supply chains so that we know we are not putting people’s lives at risk to clothe us."@en1
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