With your permission, I would like to add something. With regard to the rules about public procurement, you talk about a level playing field and transparency. For our part, we also ask that the rights of workers be taken into consideration explicitly. The trading partners with whom we decide to establish privileged relations should share a certain vision of the social objectives that underlie all this. We have been saying this for years and we will continue to say it. We think the notion of using trade to try to improve living conditions and social conditions more directly is not that far-fetched. Of course, it goes beyond the rather narrow framework of tariff and non-tariff barriers and so forth.
On February 11th, 2008. See this statement in context.