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"Mr President, I welcome a number of the initiatives taken by those representing our interests in Valletta. Whilst migration may not have dominated the news in the last week or two, that does not mean that the challenges we face have faded away.
Valletta highlighted the need for more international cooperation, but it also illustrated that Europe needs to harness all of its political will and political persuasion to find solutions for the humanitarian crisis before us. Valletta was an important step, but I believe that, in many ways, there were also a number of missed opportunities. Valletta should be seen only as a starting point for the more ambitious agreements we must arrive at in the future.
The missed opportunities I referred to include the need to find agreement on readmission policies. Readmission and returns must form a central focus of our long-term cooperation with our non-EU partners. It is a fact that our asylum systems simply cannot work if these agreements are not in place. Merely having more avenues for legal migration and for more EU funds will not solve the problem. Those legal avenues will never be able to satisfy the demand and the desire to come here.
I agree that the economic development of African nations is an important long—term goal for the EU. Development in African countries will provide opportunities and a real future for young people in their own home countries, avoiding skills shortages there and developing those countries as future trading partners for ourselves. But Europe needs solutions now, and Europe needs to stabilise the current situation. Returning those who do not qualify for asylum has to be part of the solution. By reducing the number of economic migrants entering the EU illegally, we increase the opportunities we are able to offer the most vulnerable refugees caught up in the conflict.
This was an important summit, and African nations especially have an important role to play. But we will now look to extend the hand of cooperation further afield. We have a crisis of global proportions which requires a global, as well as a European, response."@en1
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