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"With this vote we approved a protocol amending a partnership and cooperation agreement with Uzbekistan on trade in textiles. The agreement will be beneficial to EU exporters since it will create legal certainty for them. The value of EU textile exports to Uzbekistan is EUR 16.4 million. Uzbekistan is the world’s fifth-largest producer of cotton and its third biggest cotton exporter, but the victory of human rights there is unfortunately still a utopia. Often the government itself, which controls cotton and the textile industry, uses children as cheap labour. The European Union must therefore put in place a coherent policy towards Uzbekistan, which continues to cause concern with regard to its human rights situation. Valid tools for change do exist, but they need to be implemented."@en1
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