charts a path towards a longer-term solution through amendment of the Helms-Burton Act. |
For the United States to take such unjustified action against the EU is a particularly grave error of political judgment? ... If the United States persists with such unilateral action, the EU will have no choice but to take rapid steps to challenge it in the WTO. |
I think it's an act of petulance and arrogance to say not only do we demand what we demand, but we insist on taking it before anybody has given an independent ruling that we're entitled to, |
It cannot be right to jeopardize relations between the EU and United States because you get an answer a few weeks after the time you want it, |
mealy-mouthed. |
My message to the United States is a simple one: use the WTO system, but do not expect us to bend it to suit a timetable that you are seeking to impose by means of illegal unilateral action, |
The United States decided to defy the WTO system by introducing a form of sanctions which has no WTO authorization whatsoever, ... What the United States has done is therefore unacceptable and unlawful. |
We are still ready to negotiate. I urge the United States to take a broad view, |
We have new evidence that hormone-treated beef is dangerous. We will offer more access for U.S. goods into Europe [while tests continue]. |
We remain ready to cooperate with the U.S. (officials) in accelerating a (WTO) panel provided that they make clear that they are abandoning the unilateral route and respect the rules and procedures of the WTO, |
We, in our own quite independent way, have pushed for more democracy in Cuba. We have done so on the basis of contact with Cuba, rather than isolation of Cuba, |