Traduction de «Amérique Latine et Asie » (Français → Anglais) :

Recognises that the conclusion of the WTO agreements on trade in bananas put an end to a long-term dispute with Latin American and ACP partner countries’ banana suppliers, could facilitate progress in the Doha Round negotiations and has contributed to concluding the negotiations on the various agreements with Central America and Colombia and Peru; calls, nonetheless, for account to be taken of the commitments made to ACP partners and the interests of EU producers; calls, in order to avoid further disputes, for fair treatment to be guaranteed to all trade partners in Latin America, including those who have not concluded a trade agreemen ...[+++]t with the EU;

whereas the European Union has strengthened its economic and trade relations with Latin America, becoming its second most important trading partner and the leading trading partner for MERCOSUR and Chile; whereas, according to Eurostat, trade volumes doubled between 1999 and 2008, with EU imports of goods from Latin America increasing to EUR 96,14 billion and exports of goods to the region to EUR 76,81 billion, while there was a steady rise in trade in services; whereas, owing to the dramatic effect of the financial and economic crisis, these figures dropped in 2009 to EUR 70,11 billion (imports) and EUR 61,57 billion (exports), but sta ...[+++]rted to grow again in 2010; whereas European countries constitute the largest source of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Latin America,

whereas, according to ECLAC, important successes in poverty reduction could be achieved, with the poverty rate in Latin America decreasing from 44,4 % in 2003 to 33 % in 2010, while poverty and migration are increasingly female, and whereas, according to ECLAC and UNICEF, almost 63 % of children and adolescents in Latin America suffer from poverty,

whereas several Latin American countries have been ranked among the three countries most vulnerable to climate change in the world, and taking into account the notable impact of the processes of desertification and deforestation and the increase in phenomena such as cyclones and species extinction that affect Latin America to a large extent, as well as concrete, alarming and highly significant examples of the global threat posed by climate change, such as the state of the Amazon rainforest and the risk posed by Andean glaciers,

Latin America: The support of the Latin American countries is vital in order to protect the frequencies allocated to Galileo.

The ESC's most recent initiatives in this field include the Opinion on Relations between the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean: socio-economic interregional dialogue(1), adopted with a view to the first Summit of Heads of State and Government of the EU, Latin America and the Caribbean held in the Rio de Janeiro on 28 and 29 June 1999 and the first meeting of the representatives of European/Latin American-Caribbean civil society held in Rio on 23 to 25 June 1999.