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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	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991117.6.3-194"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-17-Speech-3-1952
lpv:speaker	lp:Alain Lamassoure2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2000-03-16)3 unknown; Union pour la démocratie française (1999-07-20--2003-07-01)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with South Africa (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-21--2000-02-17)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Seattle Conference is not an invitation from the United States to the rest of the world to impose the vision of absolute and unbridled free trade. It is exactly the opposite. The World Trade Organisation is a European idea, one to which the Americans were converted in Marrakech, after having opposed it for a long time. With regard to Seattle, it is the Europeans, not the Americans who are proposing the greater agenda: the Millennium Round is our idea. It is the Europeans, not the Americans, who have gained the most from previous negotiations. Since 1995 the United States’ trade deficit towards us has grown spectacularly: almost USD 30 billion last year. Anyway, the issue is not unregulated trade, but quite the opposite, to ensure that the formidable growth of trade serves everyone’s long-term development and not just the predatory enrichment of the strongest. We want increased levels of trade and the elimination of the many barriers that still remain in some countries for some goods and for most services. We want fair trade for everyone and by that I mean equal conditions for competition. They are not equal in agriculture, or in cultural sectors. There must be rules for competition and a court to ensure that they are respected, and that means by the strongest, too, with regard to the weakest. Finally, we want trade that benefits sustainable development, by creating a link between trade agreements and our other major international commitments on fundamental labour rights, on food safety and on environmental protection. Basically, we have to undertake, on a worldwide scale, the course of action that enabled us to succeed in Europe when we moved from the Customs Union to the Single Area, and that is why Europe has the most to bring to the negotiations and has the right to expect the most from it."@en1

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