Yesterday, so as not to extend the sitting for too long, I accepted the solution put forward by the President in the Chair.

Our solidarity must also extend to the nations affected by the embargo.

PANNELLA (NI). (FR) On page 1 of the Minutes, it says that I spoke and that the reason for which I spoke was Rules 18 and 84, on the basis of which I had asked the President for the floor the previous day.

NORDMANN (LDR). (FR) Mr President, I am quite astonished by this request.

The small countries with a relatively high volume of external trade carry a particularly heavy burden of transaction costs.

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GUTIÉRREZ DÍAZ (GUE). (ES) With your permission, Mr President, I should like it to be recorded in the Minutes that with regard to my vote on Amendment No 3 to document B3 1721 90 there was a technical

PRESIDENT (GR). The Minutes of yesterday's sitting have been distributed.

PRESIDENT. Ladies and gentlemen, at the request of the President of the European Parliament, I shall now read out the telegram sent to Mr Perez de Cuellar, Secretary General of the United Nations

My answer referred to epidemiological surveys carried out in the locality of sites where there are nuclear facilities involved in the production of electricity from fissile materials.

Are there any comments ?

That may give rise to constant speculation as to when the second stage will be brought to a conclusion.

PRESIDENT. As they deal with the same subject the following Questions will be taken together

PRESIDENT. The Minutes of the sitting of Friday, 26 October have been circulated.

McMAHON (S). Mr President, I would refer to page 30 of the English version of the Minutes.

The President also presents the ECB 's Annual Report to the plenary of the European Parliament .

But the wise course is to leave the negotiators at the intergovernmental conference to choose between options.

We are talking about reducing the aggregate measurement of support by 30 for a period from 1986 to 1996.

As I was saying, viewpoints have drawn closer, and that is a good sign.

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(The sitting was suspended at 9.05 a.m. to await the arrival of the President in Office of the Council and resumed at 9.10 a.m.)

PRESIDENT. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the first partsession of the European Parliament since the unification of Germany on 3 October.

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DEFRAIGNE (LDR). (FR) Mr President, I speak on behalf of Mr Goria, chairman of the Political Affairs Committee.

DESSYLAS (CG). (GRJ The President in Office has not really replied to the points in my question.

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The President was also invited to present the ECB 's Annual Report 2002 at the plenary session of the European Parliament .

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To give the floor to another signatory, therefore, would be to deny the minority in committee the opportunity to defend their views.

The Commission, last April, undertook certain obligations towards up with the Delors code of practice which it signed.

FALCONER (S). Mr President, is it not the case that people are complaining about the lights in order to delay the beginning of this sitting?

As the interim president I have the task of chairing this inaugural session up until the election of the new Committee bureau and, in particular, the new president.