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"Mr President, I hesitate to intrude on what is almost an all-Finnish debate, but I would like to welcome this second action plan and draw attention to two points. I was privileged to attend on behalf of Parliament all three ministerial meetings that helped prepare this action plan, and there are two points which seem to have been overlooked.
The Northern Dimension has to do with EU-Russia relations, but it also has to do with something much wider than that across the whole of the high north and the Arctic. We held one of the ministerial meetings in Ilulissat, Greenland, and I thought the window on the Arctic had been highlighted, but it seems instead to have been slammed shut.
The Arctic environment and its people concern us all. They are part of a global challenge which we have to answer and which we ignore at our absolute peril. We had the chance in the EU to show leadership in this by working with and through the Arctic Council and also, more importantly, by forging a partnership with the US in this area of the globe where we could work together.
The second point that is missing is that of parliamentary and representative involvement at all levels. The first ministerial meeting foresaw the creation of a Northern Dimension forum. I was at a Nordic Council parliamentarians meeting yesterday in Warsaw, where the same point was made. We need parliamentary involvement at all levels to champion, advocate, scrutinise and move this policy forward so that it does not remain a phantom policy but becomes a reality."@en1
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