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Mr President, no one can doubt the important potential benefits which will accrue from the successful completion of the current round, benefits both for developed and for developing countries. We are talking about economic, social, environmental and, above all, development benefits. It is precisely these benefits which require us to abide by our high aspirations for the Doha development agenda. The definition of less ambitious and realistic objectives must relate solely to the Hong Kong conference and not to the Doha round overall.
The declaration to be adopted at the Ministerial Conference will need, on the one hand, to freeze the progress already made in individual sectors and, on the other hand, to set clear objectives for ongoing negotiations. It will also need to safeguard specific, tangible results in the sector of trade and development. The agricultural sector is being called – and to a large extent justifiably – the mainstay of the current negotiations. The democratically legitimate position of the Union was the outcome of the last review of the common agricultural policy.
The European Union, as you quite rightly said Commissioner, has made material and credible contributions to the current negotiations. We expect our partners to make similar concessions and to pursue the necessary flexibility which will allow the balanced progress needed to be made in the individual sectors of the Doha agenda.
The safeguarding of a balanced and ambitious result in all the basic sectors of the Doha development programme is – and rightly so – the core of the Union's negotiating strategy. I refer mainly to the sectors of services, industrial products, the facilitation of trade and the protection of industrial and intellectual property.
The European Union, as the biggest trading power in the world, as the supreme factor in world trade diplomacy, is being called on to respond to the challenge of the Doha round, of this development round, to play a material role as far as Hong Kong and beyond.
This is our mandate; the mandate of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, as formulated here seven months ago, in good time, in the text of positions adopted by the European People's Party. This mandate is also set out in the motion for a resolution which we are debating. I wish you
and every success, Mr Mandelson.
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