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"Mr President, I consider Doha a success, but I did think before Doha and I still feel now that the European position of the strategy of expanding the agenda was a serious mistake. Indeed, overloading the WTO now and in the future with too many expectations for too many sectors will jeopardise the achievement of the organisation’s single, fundamental objective: market access, revitalising the stagnant situation of international trade, in the interests of both rich and poor countries.
Lastly, Commissioner, with regard to agriculture – let us not forget, before we start to feel too pleased with ourselves, that, ultimately, Europe’s negotiating position, as Mr Fischer explained, was actually an attempt to defend the indefensible, to defend the common agricultural policy. We concern ourselves with working standards in Africa, Asia and South America, and yet, at Doha, we defended the wealthy French peasant farmers against the poor peasant farmers of South-East Asia, Africa and Latin America. This is the bottom line. Therefore, the agenda should not be expanded. Let us concern ourselves rather with the opening up of the markets, especially our rich agricultural and textiles markets."@en1
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