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"Mr President, no one doubts that aid for trade is a particularly important initiative. It helps to bring about the more complete and effective integration of developing countries, especially the less developed countries, into the multilateral trade system.
As we have heard, trade is not a panacea for development. However, it can strengthen the economic and general development of recipient states.
The special and differentiated treatment of developing countries within the framework of the WTO is necessary to a degree, especially as regards the less developed countries. It should, nonetheless, be pointed out that their assumption of multilateral commitments and their compliance with WTO rules are an incentive for reform which will turn out to be to the benefit of the developing countries themselves.
The gradual opening up of their markets and an outward-looking economic and trade policy help to strengthen their competitiveness, allowing the transfer of technology and know-how.
The developing countries do, however, appear to be extremely reticent at multilateral negotiations to heed calls for them to open up their markets. For this reason, aid for trade is of decisive importance in encouraging these countries to respond to new obligations and to apply multilateral trade rules, to mitigate the cost of their adapting to reforms and to integrate trade into their development policies more effectively.
It goes without saying that aid for trade must be accompanied by appropriate internal policies in developing countries, so that they maximise the result. The European Union is being called upon to play a leading role in this endeavour, in order to formulate an effective, cohesive and targeted aid for trade agenda.
To close, I should like to congratulate Commissioner Mandelson for supporting this initiative and for linking the external aspects of competitiveness with internal initiatives for the benefit of the competitiveness of the European economy, which was the subject of our previous debate."@en1
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