Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-11-Speech-2-227"
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"Thank you Commissioner for acknowledging that you understand that there are these perceptions on the part of the ACP negotiators. They could be based upon the fact that your representative said in a recent meeting that the EPA negotiations were not about development, but about negotiating new trading arrangements, and that was the mandate. That might be at the root of the kind of perception they have.
The South Africans managed to get agreement that their trade negotiations would be renamed 'trade and development' negotiations. That was a key element in the success of those negotiations. Would you consider renaming? Would that not be an act of good faith with the ACP?
There also seems to be resistance to making development an agenda item of the negotiations. Would you confirm whether this is, or is not, the case? Is it then the case that because you are not prepared to have it as an agenda item, that again confirms the perception that you are not willing to consider development as an integral part of these negotiations because you see it as giving the ACP more leverage in the negotiations as they go on."@en1
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