Mark Vaile
Mark Vaile
Mark Anthony James Vaile AOis a former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and former leader of the National Party of Australia. Vaile is currently a non-executive director of a number of public listed corporations...
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The failure of the EU to make a meaningful offer on agricultural market access is deeply disappointing. Those EU member states who talk up their contribution to development are now blocking the most significant steps the global community could take in years to create new opportunities for the world's poorest countries.
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The US offer on domestic subsidies has thrown a challenge at the feet of the EU to come forward with a much more ambitious proposal on market access.
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It is the European Union that is standing isolated, still standing against the agreement of this text, ... It is not the Cairns Group, it is not Australia, it is not the United States, it is not Japan holding out at this stage.
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France and other EU members have taken the EU to the brink of collapsing the round,
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I don't believe the meeting should be postponed, even if the EU does not put forward a better proposal, ... I believe that the EU and France would need to account for their actions before the parliament of world opinion.
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The EU are the ones putting the development round under threat, and developing countries will suffer most,
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We now know that Mark Latham would have threatened our national security and our future.
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Our interest is in having the tariff and the quota removed as soon as possible. That's what we continue to argue for,
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The negotiations are really now on the edge of a cliff and it will take a concerted effort to get the round back on track,
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I'm not here to sign up a deal or identify tenders -- just to ensure that Australian companies have access to the competitive tender process run by the Iraqi Grain Board in the future.
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The big difference in this organization now is Lamy. Lamy is uniquely suited to the task at hand.
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We cannot continue to baulk at making commitments because we want someone else to move first. All areas of the negotiations need to move forward together.
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We welcome this announcement, ... The Australian government has announced a judicial inquiry on this matter and it is common sense to let that process run its course.
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enormous opportunities to Australian companies interested in profiting in the world's largest and most dynamic economy.