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UK, Denmark urge EU trade break for Pakistan
09-15-2010, 11:44 AM
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UK, Denmark urge EU trade break for Pakistan
* British foreign secretary says help should not be made conditional to fight against terrorists

LONDON: Britain and Denmark urged the European Union on Tuesday to grant trade concessions to Pakistan to help it overcome devastating floods.

“We have both been advocating... that the EU can do more to give market access for goods from Pakistan to European markets,” British Foreign Secretary William Hague said after talks with his Danish counterpart Lene Espersen, adding that both countries would be pushing the case at an EU summit in Brussels this week. “We see completely eye to eye on this... we need Pakistan to help develop a more stabilised economy in the long run, and this goes through more trade,” Espersen told reporters.

The EU, divided on the issue but spurred into action by the floods, now appears likely to grant concessions, which will above all boost market access for Pakistani textiles. Britain and Germany, which both have thousands of troops fighting insurgents in Afghanistan, back concessions, but southern European states with textile industries that compete with Pakistan’s have blocked them. EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels last Friday asked EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht to draw up a plan for approval by leaders at Thursday’s summit that would seek a World Trade Organisation waiver worth at least 230 million euros ($292 million) for Pakistan, EU diplomats said.

Pakistan would also benefit from a review of the EU’s Generalised System of Preferences-Plus (GSP+) underway – a trade support mechanism – due to be completed in January, they said. Hague said he did not believe trade concessions should be made conditional on Pakistan doing more to tackle terrorists.
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