Like Mr Commissioner Marin, I hope that the next intergovernmental

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Some of the most important poets are Nichita Stănescu, Marin Sorescu, and Ana Blandiana.

Today the Commissioner, Mr Marin, is with us. Wc know his sensitive approach to these subjects

As the rapporteur was unable to attend, the opinion was presented by his expert, Mr Marin Puerto.

Fincher was drawn to this story because he spent much of his childhood in San Anselmo in Marin County during the initial Zodiac murders.

Mr Vázquez Fouz's remarks about the need for new agreements with Namibia and Latin America will be passed on to my colleague, Manuel Marin.

Commissioner Marin and ourselves are aware that the provisions of the Lomé IV Convention are totally inadequate given the magnitude of the problem that I have just described.

And the winner is...Milie Marin Fournier, 34, owner alongside her husband of a grape and fruit farm near Marseilles, in Southern France (her interview in French on Wikiagri).

VAN MIERT. (NL) All I can do is make a note of this question and pass it on to my colleague, Mr Marin, which I will again willingly do.

Mr Marin had been in Strasbourg, but he had a meeting in Rome and had to leave for the airport and was therefore not available at this late hour.

And indeed our joint resolution has already born fruit, since Commissioner Marin told us yesterday that he would take this line at the meeting of the relevant Council of Ministers.

We simply cannot, Mr Marin, on the one hand mount a military attack on the countries of the South by sending an armada and then try to console them by debt remission.

With regard to the Castro Marin nature reserve, a protected area under Council Directive 79 409 EEC (!), the Portuguese authorities have given a formal pledge that no work will be carried out there.

PRESIDENT. (GR) Before giving the floor to Mr Marin I want to inform you that I have received five motions for resolutions, with request for an early vote, to wind up the debate.

ADAM (S). Mr President, I want first of all to welcome the participation of Vice President Marin in this debate and I also want to acknowledge the help I have had from the Fisheries Directorate in recent weeks.

My colleague Mr Marin who was here until five minutes ago and really had hoped to leave by eight o'clock because there is a Council meeting tomorrow, has had to leave me to stand in for him and Mr Matutes.

EWING (ARC). Mr President, I would congratulate Mr Arias Cañete on his report and Mr Lataillade on his oral question and would thank Commissioner Marin for meeting some of us from the UK fisheries sector today to discuss the crisis we face.

ADAM (S). I would ask the Commission a question arising from the resolution which was passed at the last partsession on conservation measures in the fisheries sector and it is very appropriate that the Vice President Marin is with us this evening.

On that occasion the floor was given first to the then chairman of the Committee of Inquiry, Mr Ford, and he was then followed by Mr Evrigenis, the rapporteur, then by Mr Marin, the Commissioner, then by all the other speakers for the various groups.

Without going here into detail, I shall simply point out, as Mr Vice President Marin did at the Joint Assembly in Luxembourg, that the Commission's officers are studying the various possibilities for reducing the debts entered into by the ACP countries with the Community.

At the last joint Assembly, last month, wc raised the problem once again and obtained for the first time categorical assurances from Commissioner Marin on the willingness of the Commission to move in the direction of our demand for the cancellation of the ACP debts to the Community.

Vice President Marin, in his speech to this Parliament on 14 June, was able to inform you that the Commission was providing considerable aid on humanitarian grounds, both to those affected inside Liberia and to the Liberian refugees in neighbouring countries such as Sierra Leone, the Ivory Coast and Guinea.

I support what Commissioner Marin is trying to achieve with regard to exploratory voyages, joint ventures, agreements with third countries and the smallscale funding, with the precondition and perhaps the Commissioner would comment on this in his wind up that there be adequate levels of funding to make these proposals meaningful.

In this respect I should like to refer again to the answer which Mr Commissioner Marin gave on behalf of the Commission when the Van der Lek report on the deforestation in Sarawak was under consideration Parliament stated its position unequivocally and has since then several times advocated a complete cessation of imports.

The Commission has decided to take infringement proceedings no farther, although it continues to pay careful attention to how the Via do Infante project is being carried out and to compliance with the undertakings which the Portuguese authorities have given, especially with regard to the inviolability of the Castro Marin reserve. This undertaking was decisive in persuading the Commission not to take infringement proceedings farther.

It is their future. However, they feci that the 120mm mesh is not even based on good science, and I am glad that today Commissioner Marin agreed that some of the fishermen who have conducted exploratory research voyages with the new proposed net of 90mm with an 80mm panel per square mesh will to be able to meet the Commissioner's expert next week in Brussels to put this point.