Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-06-18-Speech-1-153"
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"Madam President, I should like to congratulate the rapporteur on her extremely important report.
The ten-year partnership and cooperation agreement between the European Union and Russia is an adequate foundation on which to build broader and deeper relations between the two sides.
The stated objectives of creating four common areas must, in my opinion, despite the burgeoning confidence crisis, continue to be politically binding in the negotiating process for the new post-2007 framework.
The establishment of an integrated and open market within the framework of a common economic area between the Union and Russia will feed and be fed by Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organisation. To those who express reservations about Russia’s accession to the global trade system, I should like to point out that it is preferable for a market as huge as the Russian market to be integrated into the procedures, rules and disciplines of the WTO than to operate as a ‘free rider’.
I should also like to add that the Union should take an initiative to start negotiations in the aim of the full integration of trade and investment in the energy sector into the multilateral trade system.
Security of supply is an overriding priority for the Union and bilateral agreements between the Member States of the Union and Russia are being called upon to help here. The agreement between Russia, Greece and Bulgaria on the construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline is a contribution of strategic importance to European energy infrastructures. It has also been judged by the Commission as a plan of pan-European interest within the framework of the INOGATE programme.
In its relations with Russia, the Union is being called upon to act on terms of political agreement and an institutional approach and not on terms of an unruly international system."@en1
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