To be answered under political cooperation.

It is political cooperation we need, not political union.

In the Commission's opinion, until development co operation policy is included as part of Community forward planning, we can only come back to the sametype of proposals.

( r ) a policy in the sphere of development cooperation

Have the Foreign Ministers meeting in EPC considered taking any steps to encourage the ratification of the Convention by all the Member States of the EEC?

What political importance do the Foreign Ministers attach to European Parliament resolutions on human rights ?

The success of this embargo is the key to a happy, peaceful outcome to the conflict.

Finally, I have a particular problem which I ask the Commissioner to investigate.

Anyone who thought that after the many promising initial moves towards the creation of European political union European Political Cooperation would bring real cooperation was completely mistaken.

At the same time that we hear the Commission day after day saying they want to defend the family farmer, they want to maintain small farms, they are reducing support for butter consumption and doing the very opposite.

monetary and exchange rate policy co operation between the euro area and other EU countries

Could European Political Cooperation obtain all the necessary information on this subject from the Romanian Government ?

It should also be mentioned that these problems are not covered by the Cooperation Agreement between the Community and Yugoslavia. They could, however, be raised in political cooperation with Yugoslavia.

The specific question raised by the honourable Member has not been discussed in Political Cooperation.

The question raised by the honourable Member has not been discussed in European Political Cooperation.

The question raised by the honourable Member has not been discussed in European political cooperation.

The question raised by the honourable Member is not dealt with by European political cooperation.

Peaceful, diplomatic solutions presuppose negotiation, discussion, dialogue.

During the 1980s, substitutes for PCBs were developed, notably Ugilec 141, Ugilec 121 and DBBT.

The specific question asked by the honourable Member has not been dealth with in European political cooperation.

The specific case to which the honourable Member refers has not been considered in the framework of European political cooperation.

As well as gradually creating a free trade area, it establishes various spheres of political, economic, social, scientific and cultural cooperation.

Mr group has explicitly endorsed the policy that Europe has so far pursued within the framework of European Political Cooperation with regard to the Gulf crisis.

There is political cooperation in itself, and we discussed it this morning, and there is also the matter of the institutional choices to be made.

PRESIDENT. Mr Nordmann, that is far more than a point of order.

CRAMON DAIBER (V). (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I too am grateful for the friendly atmosphere that prevailed in this commitee.

The Ministers meeting in European Political Cooperation are fully aware of the consequences which the policy of economic reform will have in particular on the level of employment in the Soviet Union.

Noting with appreciation the determination of both organizations to strengthen further the existing cooperation by developing specific proposals in the designated priority areas of cooperation, as well as in the political field,

If Putin's dangerous brinkmanship is to be stopped, Western leaders will need to find a way to initiate strategic cooperation with Russia.

The first point must of course be the Gulf crisis, to say how pleased I am at the steadfastly firm and consistent position of the Community and its Member States in applying the appropriate measures to guarantee the effectiveness of the embargo against the Iraqi dictatorship.

Noting with appreciation the determination of the two organizations to strengthen further the existing cooperation by developing specific proposals in the designated priority areas of cooperation, as well as in the political field,

Consequently, the honourable Member's suggestion about holding a special meeting of European political cooperation with Amnesty International cannot be envisaged.

The particular Amnesty International report which the honourable Member mentions has not been discussed by the Foreign Ministers meeting in political cooperation.

We are convinced, on the contrary, that political and Com munity integration at the highest level cannot be achieved until the spirit and ideal on which they must be founded take precedence over forced decisions.

Needless to say, the greater the governance and policy challenges at home, the more difficult regional and global cooperation becomes.

European North South cooperation and the development policy are no longer keeping pace with panEuropean development at all.

Efforts should also be made to make them consistent with the other programmes aquaculture, fishing, transport, nonnuclear energy, global climate, etc.

Like Mr Commissioner Marin, I hope that the next intergovernmental

In the field of economic cooperation, there are specific plans to extend and intensify Community activities in Latin America, mainly with the relatively more developed countries.

In making the kind of analysis that this report does, you have got to be able to distinguish between citizens of our own Member States, Community citizens elsewhere in the Community, and migrant workers.

The European Parliament also emphasized Iraq's intention of acquiring weapons of mass destruction, this being an implicit reference to the notorious supergun nuclear components episodes.

Main areas of co operation ( as a percentage of all co operation activities )

The accreditation of Government representatives to the Communities from nonCommunity countries is not one of the responsibilities of European political cooperation.

With regard to poverty in the Third World, the Community mainly takes action through its policy of development cooperation.

European laws or framework laws shall establish the measures necessary for the implementation of development cooperation policy, which may relate to multiannual cooperation programmes with developing countries or programmes with a thematic approach.