European Parliament
Figueiredo (GUE/NGL ).
(PT)
Mr President, at a time when the World Trade Organization is meeting in Geneva, I wish to draw attention to the need to revise current policies for liberalising trade, in order to promote fair and equitable trading systems that are geared towards genuinely enabling each country to develop its true potential, towards solving the problems of poverty, towards promoting better living conditions, without imposing relationships of dominance and dependence.
Mr President, it is important that this Parliament discusses the current Commission mandate, given the failure of the WTO Ministerial Summit in Cancún to conclude any agreements, and that we make the appropriate proposals for the future which take account of these concerns. On the very day that this meeting is taking place in Geneva, the Commission must take account of these concerns.

