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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
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	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030924.6.3-244"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-24-Speech-3-2452
lpv:speaker	lp:Renzo Imbeni2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; PES (2000-03-08--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I get the impression that the individual trees that make up the many aspects of the failure of Cancún prevent us from focusing more closely on the wood. The wood is the same as that which caused Seattle to break down almost four years ago, and it has a name and a surname: it is called a huge inequality between rich and poor countries, and the absence of an agreed strategy to reduce that inequality, a strategy made up of timeframes, policies, programmes, figures and amounts. Clearly, this strategy forms part of neither Bush’s unilateralism – it is true that there is a close link between Iraq and Cancún – nor any of the bilateral agreements. Genuine multilateralism is the only correct method, but that is where our limitations lay in the preparations for Cancún. That was one of the weaker areas of the Presidency and the Council’s work. Although he is not listening to me, I would like to say to Mr Urso that I appreciated his frank reasoning and also much of his analysis. What, however, did we do to prepare for Cancún? While President Bush was on the phone to President Lula and the Indian Prime Minister, what were we doing? This was a weaker area of the Commission and Parliament’s work too. According to Commissioner Lamy’s forecasts – backed by most of the Members of the European Parliament – the famous G-17 alliance, which then became G-21 and G-24, was to be primarily tactical, but, for mainly political reasons, that was not the case, and it will not be the case in future either. Madam President, I would have preferred to wait a little before voting on the documents in this Chamber. Indeed, tomorrow, we are going to vote on a rather disappointing document which will not answer the question ‘Why did Cancún fail?’ and will not provide guidelines on the direction we should take in future. I would like to end by saying to Commissioner Lamy that, although the WTO is the negotiating forum, it is not on the Moon or on Mars. It is here, and the backdrop to the negotiations is precisely this huge inequality which exists and which characterises life on this Earth in our time."@en1

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