Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-09-04-Speech-1-110"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-09-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Common Community diplomacy2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000904.7.1-110"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-09-04-Speech-1-1112
lpv:speaker	lp:Hanja Maij-weggen2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (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 member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (1999-07-20--2003-09-30)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the informal meeting of Foreign Ministers in Evian has, in fact, already anticipated to some degree the excellent proposals in Mr Galeote Quecedo’s report. As I understand it, it was agreed that the EU embassies in third countries and the embassies of the Member States should improve their level of cooperation and coordinate their development programmes, and that there should be far more joint action. Now these are things we have already called for on countless occasions, and so I am delighted that Mr Galeote Quecedo has made a proposal that is very much in line with our wishes. Mr President, last week, I was in Indonesia on a fact-finding mission and all I can say is that the EU delegation out there provided me with outstanding support. When I go on foreign trips, I always ask for a meeting to be arranged which will be attended by all the EU ambassadors, i.e. the ambassadors of the 15 Member States. This occasion was no exception, and a meeting was indeed arranged. And then there are complaints that the joint policy of the EU Member States is not in the limelight enough, and that although people in Indonesia know full well what Japan and the United States are doing there, they do not have a clear enough idea as to what the 15 Member States of the European Union are doing there. If I then ask: ‘how do you coordinate your work, and how do you harmonise your activities, the answer is: ‘that is not something we do’. And I would go so far as to say that people seem to be in great fear of achieving a degree of coordination and harmonisation. That is why I think it is so important that these agreements were reached in Evian, and why I welcome with open arms the fact that an EU college of diplomacy has been proposed. The national diplomats should also be required to attend courses at a college of this kind, so that they understand how to take joint action at European level. There is an urgent need for this. It is not a question of wanting to outdo the United States, or Japan, for example, but what we do need to do is give Europe a much higher profile in third countries. Accordingly, I have a great deal of time for Mr Galeote Quecedo’s report and I truly hope that the Evian proposals come to fruition."@en1

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