Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-06-11-Speech-2-167"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-06-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Result of the preparatory meeting for the Johannesburg Summit (Bali, 27 May – 7 June 2002)2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020611.9.2-167"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-06-11-Speech-2-1682
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2003-03-24)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)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) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the World Conference on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg could provide a unique opportunity for creating sustainable development, economically, socially and in environmental terms, for future generations, but it requires the rich world to sacrifice something in the interests of such development. It is unfortunate and almost embarrassing that the talks in Bali concerning a global agreement on sustainability in actual fact broke down. It shows the rich world’s unwillingness to commit itself when it comes to the key issues of globalisation, trade and development. The rich countries have still not fulfilled the pledge they made in Rio. The developing countries are therefore justified in expecting these issues to be dealt with. The developing countries want, and should be given, guarantees that the industrial countries are beginning to phase out state subsidies for agriculture and that the additional aid for the environment and for sustainable development, promised to them in Rio ten years ago, is in fact on the way. The rich countries have so far been very dismissive, however. The United States does not wish to make the necessary concessions, and the EU is hesitating. The EU has staked a certain amount of prestige on making a success of the world summit but, as is clear from the speech by the President-in-Office of the Council, it has quite simply been insufficiently prepared. The EU must now, at the eleventh hour, go home and prepare itself. Hopefully, we shall have agreed, in as little as two weeks’ time in Seville, to take entirely practical initiatives. For Denmark, the world summit will be the first big international event of its EU Presidency and also a test of that presidency. Access to our markets is the key to the developing countries’ being able to compete successfully, but it is no use the EU’s making unduly strict demands of the developing countries as a condition of free trade, and they must certainly not be used as an excuse for the EU’s and the United States’s maintaining obstacles to trade. Determined work must be done on bringing the EU together in guaranteeing the world’s poorest countries access to the rich countries’ markets. The developing countries must be given a pledge of free and fair trade. As part of this, the EU must necessarily phase out export and production subsidies. As the country holding the presidency of the EU, Denmark should insist on all countries’ complying with the UN’s objective whereby 0.7% of Gross National Product is to be donated by way of aid to developing countries."@en1

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