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"Mr President, I too should like to begin by congratulating Mrs Carlotti on her report. This is a fine piece of work, and it is also excellent that the work has been completed before the next meeting of the ACP-EU Joint Assembly takes place, which is as early as next week of course. It is an important report, and Mrs Carlotti has also put forward a number of theoretical observations. I shall examine a couple of them more closely but, before I do so, I should just like to emphasise that it does not of course help a great deal to stand here and talk about the Cotonou Agreement if we cannot get it ratified, and we must once again call upon the Member States to make such ratification possible. I believe that, in the course of the last few months, only one additional country has come on board. And even if there are many countries that have planned to ratify the agreement, we have still to see the final signatures. The situation is a little better where the ACP countries are concerned, but the overall number of signatories is, of course, still by no means large enough.
The second thing that can be said is that such an agreement is not really, of course, worth very much if we do not arrange for proper aid. Here, too, there are, no doubt, difficulties, and I hope that the Commissioner – or whoever he now has to help him – will succeed in getting a process under way before tomorrow’s formal meeting of foreign ministers. The target I should like to have seen, namely one of 0.7%, will certainly not be adopted, but I have to acknowledge that this target is impossible to achieve at the present time. Simply getting a binding process under way will, however, be of absolutely crucial importance.
I should like now to address two points in Mrs Carlotti’s report. The first is the issue of our own working methods. On that issue, I definitely do not think that we have made enough progress. I think we have too many resolutions and too little debate. The second point is the composition of the ACP-EU delegation, which is not of course particularly appropriate. The fact that the delegation includes only one person from the ACP countries introduces a distortion, democratically speaking, and I therefore also think that we should look again at the composition. Should we, for example, have twice as many delegates from both sides and then only meet once a year in order to obtain greater representation? Or can we come up with some other solution?"@en1
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