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re Cuba
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Notes that the Community's trade balance with Cuba has for years shown a large surplus and calls on the Commission to ascertain to what extent the Community can further open its market to Cuban products, in particular agricultural products and textiles;
Calls on the Commission in this connection to consider the possibility of concluding a bilateral agreement on textiles with Cuba;
6. Also calls upon the Commission to ascertain to what extent Cuban products
can benefit further from the Generalized System of Preferences;
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Views the expansion of tourism in Cuba as a way of reducing its trade deficit;
Considers that it is essential, for future cooperation between Cuba and its neighbouring states as well as between Cuba and the European Community, for Cuba totally to relinquish its military involvement in Africa, which was the result of military aggression by South Africa;
Assumes that future economic relations between the European Community and Cuba will contribute to the further integration of Cuba in the economy of Latin America and at the same time reduce its excessive economic dependence on sugar-cane production;
10. Expects Cuba in future actively to support the peaceful development of the
states of Central America, and in particular the efforts of the Contadora Group;
11. Sees the possibility of including Cuba in cooperation between the EC and the states of Latin America, in particular, economic and scientific cooperation and cooperation in biotechnology and technological innovation, as possible areas for the development of relations with Cuba;
re Mongolia
12. Expects trade relations between Mongolia and the European Community to be
stepped up in the long term despite the limited volume of trade at present;
re Vietnam
13. Assumes that Vietnam will become an attractive potential market for the
Community's trade relations in the foreseeable future;
14. Supports all attempts aimed at achieving the peaceful development of the
states of Indo-China and the efforts to stabilize a government legitimized by free elections in Kampuchea;
15. Expects however that Pol Pot and his faction of the Khmer Rouge, who are responsible for genocide and were expelled by Vietnam, will in no way be given political responsibility in Kampuchea;'
16. Hopes and expects that the ASEAN States will promote efforts to set up and guarantee ar
independent, free and democratic Kampuchea;
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