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"Mr President, let me come back to a few questions that have been mentioned.
The most important issue, as many of you have said, is that today we need a stronger Europe in foreign policy. In order to get a stronger Europe in foreign policy we have to work together. We have to work together particularly on those topics that are now very topical. One of them mentioned by many of you was that of energy policy. As I have said before, we are working on that at the moment. That means, of course, that we should have a better conducted energy policy, if not a common external one. I know we have to head for this at the very least, and we already have quite a lot of valuable instruments with which to do so, including political dialogues and specific energy dialogues. Then there are multilateral dialogues: we have to bring in OPEC; we have to speak more with OPEC and with the Gulf Cooperation Council.
As I said, the strategy of diversification will be crucial for all of us. We have to look into the integration into the European energy market of the energy markets of our neighbouring countries, following the example of the South East European Energy Community, for instance. We also have a lot of financial instruments to encourage energy topics to come together. The security of energy supply, as I have mentioned before, is crucial. Therefore I can promise you that we are working on it and as soon as the communication is out, we will come back to that.
As Mr Rasmussen mentioned, it is also very important to see pre-emptive diplomacy. That is crucial. I agree with that. Of course, such diplomacy sometimes needs patience. You cannot eradicate poverty from one day to the next; you cannot work on all the different kinds of crisis management or even post-crisis management and have a change immediately. For that we need a sustainable and cohesive way forward.
Migration is another very important new topic on foreign policy. Again, we will all have to work together with the countries of origin, with the transition countries, with the European Union to find the right way of balancing out an internal and an external policy.
The fight against terrorism; the fight against drugs: all of that will take us many years, but these battles will increasingly have to be fought from a united front. Weapons of mass destruction; the support for democracy, the rule of law and free and fair elections: this is all mentioned in our neighbourhood policy, so of course we will also take that very seriously. We have a positive incentive on that in our Barcelona programme, for instance, but we also need every support so as to be able to make real progress with this policy.
Strategic partnerships with major powers, such as trans-Atlantic relations; relations with China, India, Brazil; and the very good relations with Latin America: these are all important because here we have the possibility to work together in a multilateral framework, also working with the United Nations, as has been said. Of course, it is also is important that we are able to combine the work for our common values in the multilateral strategy.
The neighbourhood policy is an important part of the security strategy, because we really try to export stability by working together with Ukraine, the Southern Caucuses and the Mediterranean countries. Therefore we have high aspirations to make Europe safer; we know we have many challenges ahead, but I do not see another way forward other than trying to enhance all our instruments and work for a common Europe built on common values together with the world."@en1
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