Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-11-Speech-2-045"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20011211.3.2-045"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:translated text |
".
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission feels that the ministerial meeting in Doha ended in success – success in terms of the objectives that had been defined for the Union, success also in terms of the interests pursued by the developing countries and success, lastly, in terms of the needs of the global economy and the multilateral trade system. We came back from Doha with a WTO that was both stronger and more balanced, which was the key objective of the mandate that the Council and your Parliament had given to the negotiators. So the results very largely lived up to many of the concerns you had expressed in this Chamber, in particular in your two resolutions of 25 October. I will try, in a few words, to show you how they lived up to these concerns, in the light of the Union’s three key objectives: integration of the developing countries, better governance of globalisation and better access to the market for all.
Let us begin with the first objective, integrating the developing countries in the global economy. That objective is fully and constantly present in every part of the negotiating programme we adopted in Doha. From the point of view of development policy, we have made progress on the four aspects of trade policy that are crucial to development – better access for the developing countries to our markets, better domestic policies, in particular with regard to the investment, competition and public procurement aspects of our work programme; a stronger role for the developing countries in the multilateral negotiation process and, lastly, boosting these countries’ capacity to derive benefit from the liberalisation of trade.
One point I want to emphasise is the negotiation process. As the President-in-Office of the Council just pointed out – and I agree with her 100% – the working method in Doha was more transparent, which did indeed enable the developing countries, some of whom, as you may remember, had left Seattle frustrated, others furious, to play their full part in the decision-making mechanisms. That is an important new development.
As for technical assistance for the developing countries, the Commission, together with the Council and, at the appropriate time, Parliament, will have to rethink the way the Union both when it is acting as such and when it is acting through the Member States, is handling the technical assistance programmes for the developing countries in the field of trade.
Turning to a subject close your hearts, namely the special situation of the least-developed countries, let us remember what was achieved at the third United Nations conference for the least-developed countries in Brussels, which has now been incorporated in the WTO’s work programme. That, too, is good news.
Mrs Neyts-Uyttebroeck referred to the declaration on intellectual property rights and health, which, I believe, is fairly typical of what we have achieved, given that the Union made the rather difficult but, in the end, positive decision to try to strike a balance between the United States’ concerns on the one side and the concerns of third countries on the other. That is a specific case in which we acted as intermediaries and basically each side saw the other’s point of view, which finally proved the right approach to take."@en1
|
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples