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"Mr President, I must admit that it feels slightly surreal wanting to talk about other aspects of the Summit apart from Iraq, particularly given that some of the other things that the Summit dealt with are not exactly going to help us towards a more equal or a more peaceful world.
I want to pick up on certain aspects where, for once – unlike last year's Spring Summit- we looked at issues relating to global equity to some extent. For example, Paragraph 60 onwards of the Presidency Conclusions mentioned promoting sustainable development on a global scale. Those Conclusions talked about enhancement of corporate social and environmental responsibility, both at EU level and internationally. I would hope that it would apply to such issues as the granting of contracts on a fair and open basis – rather than giving them to your rich friends.
The Conclusions also mention the means of promoting sustainable and fair trade. I wonder if we have actually proofed some of the other policies that we came up with at this Spring Summit against those ambitions or, indeed, ambitions to encourage export credits that are consistent with sustainable development when certain Member States pay out over 50% of their export credits to enable arms deals to go ahead.
I hope that, in the aftermath of this Spring Summit, we are going to pay attention to the policies that we talked about there. I hope that we are going to carry those forward seriously, because we need to examine this ideal of becoming the world's most internationally competitive continent in the light of asking ourselves what the implications are for the global losers if we are the global winners, and what this is going to do to enhance stability, equality and justice in the world."@en1
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