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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:WTO Millennium Round (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991117.6.3-190"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-17-Speech-3-1912
lpv:speaker	lp:Anders Wijkman2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Kristdemokraterna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I too want to congratulate Mr Schwaiger on an excellent report. A lot of people are now criticising the World Trade Organisation for looking too one-sidedly at trade, for seeing trade as an end in itself and for failing to see the complex connections between trade, human rights and environmental considerations. I agree with parts of these criticisms but I do not draw the conclusion that we do not need a new trade round. On the contrary, I believe that the status quo is not something we can profit by. Instead, we have everything to gain from a new round because there is so much greater understanding today of these complex connections and of the fact that development questions and environmental questions have to be discussed in the one context. I would remind you of the World Trade Organisation’s latest report which deals very perceptively with just such environmental questions. Allow me to consider two special aspects of what we are discussing. The Commission rightly says that the present round is to be a development round. In a situation in which the level of aid is declining, I find it difficult to see, however, how this is going to be the case if we do not see a radical change. There are some who see a contradiction between aid and trade. They say that trade should help the poorest countries to get out of the situation they are in. I think that the question has been put in the wrong way. We need both: aid as well as trade. We must therefore link these questions to our aid work. Increased trade can, of course, have a positive effect on the environment, for example through the transfer of technology adapted to environmental requirements. The opposite may, however, also apply, mainly because our economic framework is not good at taking due account of environmental consequences. That is why it is so important that the trade regulations should take increased account of these factors. The question, when we now read this report and make every kind of demand upon the World Trade Organisation, is simply that of whether the World Trade Organisation can settle all conceivable disputes in the future. I believe – and this is an important conclusion – that, parallel to our making the World Trade Organisation “greener”, we must also strengthen the international conventions on the environment. The fact is that they are far too weak at present."@en1

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