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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-05-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:State of the transatlantic dialogue2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010516.3.3-065"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-16-Speech-3-0662
lpv:speaker	lp:Hugues Martin2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; PECH (2000-05-24--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-11-11--2002-01-14)3 member; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la République (1999-07-20--2002-12-01)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I think that our debate on the transatlantic dialogue has come at a very good moment. I need not remind Members how crucial this dialogue is with a view to achieving cooperation between equal partners, between the United States of America and the European Union. The dialogue allows us to deal with our differences and to settle some of our old trade disputes; here I am thinking in particular of bananas, an issue we finally resolved a few weeks ago. I want to emphasise the importance of the question of European defence, an issue I regard as extremely important, in particular now that we are dealing with a new American Administration that has already openly advertised its defence projects. It is quite clear that President Bush's Administration is far more distrustful of the ESDP than President Clinton's was, but that does not surprise me. It took the Union several years to explain its objectives, define its means and convince its American ally that a European defence system could be developed alongside NATO. Today we must at all costs protect this achievement of the transatlantic dialogue. The concept of an ally must not be a one-way road. I believe that the Union has shown itself to be entirely transparent in the way it has presented the CESP, followed by the ESDP, to the United States and I think it should make it just as clear that the United States must consult its allies on all major projects, of which the anti-missile shield project is one. Regarding European defence policy as such, we must continue to state firmly what we want, as we always have done, and not systematically look at every European defence question in terms of NATO's reaction. The Union has always emphasised the importance of complementarity between European action and Alliance action, especially in relation to the Petersberg tasks. The issue here is neither competition nor disengagement, but simply a united approach."@en1

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