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The importance that the European Union attaches to relations with the Andean Community and to progress towards its integration can clearly be seen from the Guadalajara summit between the European Union and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in May 2004. On that occasion, the Heads of State or Government welcomed the decision of the concerned parties to open the process leading to Association Agreements, including a free trade area. This prospect should give new impetus to strengthening the regional integration process.
In the meantime, the prior joint assessment phase has been launched – this will involve technical assessments – and the joint ministerial meeting planned for the end of May in Luxembourg will be a new opportunity to go into a subject so essential to our future relations in more detail. The European Union welcomes the desire reiterated by the Andean political representatives to continue along this path, as it does the increasing closeness of relations between Mercosur and the Andean Community.
With respect to the fight against drugs, the European Union welcomes the high-level meetings with specialists in the Andean countries regarding drugs and their precursors – the next of these meetings will take place during the first half of this year in Lima. The two parties will keep up their efforts to combat this scourge with an approach based on cooperation and co-responsibility.
In terms of commercial policy, the European Union is giving the Andean countries a prime position in the proposed GSP+. In the aim of basing sustainable political relationships on the interests and participation of the population, the Council would finally like to emphasise the important contribution resulting from the meeting with representatives of civil society from the Andean countries which took place on 3 March in Brussels."@en1
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