Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-24-Speech-3-233"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-09-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Outcome of the World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference (Cancún, 10-14 September 2003)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030924.6.3-233"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-24-Speech-3-2342
lpv:speaker	lp:Joseph Daul2
lpv:spokenAs	chair; AGRI (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 chair; Conference of Committee Chairs (2002-09-03--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (2002-12-02--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioners, honourable Members, I had prepared a speech, but everything has been said. I shall start, Commissioners, Mr Lamy, by saying that, when there is a failure, someone is to blame. I think that we are all to blame. When we say we have to divide up the shirt and we do so badly, it is perhaps because we were ill-prepared. But we also have to confine ourselves to our responsibilities. I agree with what Mr van Velzen and Mr Suominen said. First, I should like, nonetheless, to tell you that I am very happy with the agreement concluded before Cancún on generic medicines, even if it is a minor agreement for the developing countries. I have a particular thought for this issue. Secondly, having been present in Seattle and Doha, I shall say that it is true that negotiations can no longer continue to take place under such conditions. Mr Lamy, you are right to say and, if it is true that you should leave as certain people have said, it is now time to say how negotiations should be conducted. It is also true that we cannot, on the one hand, have demonstrations and, on the other hand, have people who want to negotiate and try to find solutions, especially for the poorest countries, within the framework of multilateral negotiations. This multilateralism is important, but it is absolutely necessary to introduce more democracy into the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This is an important point: in Cancún, I noted a lack of democracy at the level of the negotiating table and at the level of the general climate. I even think that this is what worried me most at the end of my third participation in the negotiations. We are being asked for transparency and clarification. All those participating in the negotiations must be transparent about why they are there and whom they are representing. The 25 Member States of the Community were represented by two people. The Group of 21 was defended by certain NGOs which we had met in our offices in Brussels, and which had used a very different language then from the language they used in Cancún. All that is true. The boil perhaps needed to burst, but, above all, we must not leave. Who is to blame, then, and who is not? Above all, we must ask ourselves two additional questions, Mr Lamy. What are we going to do next, how are we going to work, how are we going to apply the ‘peace clause’ at the level of our work in the immediate future? That is the question European farmers are asking themselves."@en1

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