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3. Voices its support once again for the equality of the official languages and the working languages of all the countries making up the EU;

The Afghan refugee population, living in neighbouring countries, is the second largest in the world while inside the country, 500 000 new internally displaced people (IDPs) have been registered and more than a million face food shortages.

2. Calls for the new Convention to provide for an enhanced role for the Joint Assembly and improve its working methods to the full so as to adapt them to the newly emerging forms of cooperation, including the possibility of holding regional Assembly meetings; stresses the fact that the Joint Assembly is truly a Parliamentary assembly, representing the peoples of ACP and EU countries, where the elected ACP Representatives now make up 75-85% of the ACP total; further calls for preparatory measures to ensure equal participation by ACP partners in Question Time and urgencies considered by the Joint Assembly;

But for once it could be written in the history books that these terrible disasters in both these countries were the beginning of a new relationship, even a new political relationship, and possibly even a new economic relationship.

* * * Following this first session of negotiations, Mr Marín today stated that the agreement with Morocco, the first of a series that would one day link the European Union with the Maghreb countries in a new partnership, was extremely important in that it brought new balance to the Union's external relations. It did not just amend the existing agreement, but established a relationship of a new type. The future agreement opened up new possibilities and should invigorate relations. It constituted a political signal from the Union: a sig ...[+++]nal that it was resolved to ensure a balance in dealings between European countries and their southern neighbours and, more specifically, to open - first with Morocco and then with the other Maghreb countries - a special partnership.

In order to draw the private sector more closely into the exploitation of the Asian market, the EU needs to: Lobby more forcefully and more systematically for the removal of laws hampering trade and investment through the discriminatory use of standards, intellectual property rights, and testing and certification requirements. Follow up the "EU market transition programme" in Vietnam with other initiatives offering policy advice to ex state-trading countries embarked on economic reforms; those countries already fairly advanced down that road, such as India and Pakistan, need ...[+++] more active help in installing deregulation programmes. Foster joint ventures between European and Asian companies by providing information on local investment conditions, opening up "European Business Councils" in China, Indochina and Pakistan, linking them more closely to chambers of commerce in Europe. Extend scientific cooperation in Asia, going beyond the example of the EU's Forum on Science and Technology in Japan. Establish European technology centres in key areas where Europe has a comparative avantage, notably banking, energy, environmental equipment, transport equipment and telecommunications. Promote investment by providing ffinancing incentives for joint ventures and supporting trade promotion.