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"Mr President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, Members of the Commission, the launch of the new, comprehensive, three-year round of talks at the Doha Summit is a very positive signal for both the World Trade Organisation and the present world economic situation. The Doha development programme, which includes the liberalisation of trade as well as elements of new rules, stressed the commitment of the developed countries to capacity building in respect of the less developed countries and to helping them implement already existing WTO rules.
I am firmly of the opinion that the small but boisterous anti-globalisation groups have now had a clear response from the less developed countries represented at Doha. We want to be involved in liberalising world trade and clarifying its rules, as that is also in the interest of the less developed countries. Every country had the opportunity to torpedo any collective decision – nobody did so, however.
The presence of China and Taiwan at the WTO was also a significant milestone. We must hope that Russia will be able to clarify its own internal structures in such a way as to allow her also to take part.
The Union’s own goals at Doha at least were successfully achieved. Commissioners Lamy and Fischler deserve our thanks for succeeding in seeing through to the end some tough negotiations that lasted a good number of days. Furthermore, the Council’s internal cohesion remained firm the whole time, something that was obviously necessary for the Union to be able to approve the outcome of the talks. In addition to being involved in the negotiations process itself, Commissioners Lamy and Fischler, together with Mrs Neyts-Uyttebroeck also, kept us Members of Parliament, who were following the events, well aware the whole time of where things were going. Sustainable development and the inclusion of environmental considerations in trade policy decisions were agreed to be an all-embracing objective in future talks, something that is certainly of crucial importance to us, the countries in the Union. As talks on the trade in agricultural products are also to be conducted in accordance with a comprehensive agenda but without any predetermined conclusion having been reached concerning forms of subsidy and timetables, this difficult matter, too, can now be negotiated peaceably whilst the Union’s common agricultural policy is being reformed.
Our parliamentary group, which held talks with several delegations that were present at Doha, thought it regrettable that the US Congress did not send their representatives there. As we continue our efforts to develop WTO transparency and parliamentary monitoring of ministerial conferences, the presence of the US Congress is essential. It is also realistic to state that we will only be able to move forward in this matter with the approval of governments. Hopefully, Germany, as we unofficially heard at Doha, will before very long take the matter up formally in the WTO bodies."@en1
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