Traduction de «Région de l'Asie et du Pacifique » (Français → Anglais) :

2. Points out the need for EU policies to be consistent with development objectives along the lines called for in Article 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; calls on the Commission to ensure that measures relating to Pacific fisheries are in keeping with an external dimension of the common fisheries policy and with the joint communication from the Commission and the High Representative entitled ‘Towards a renewed EU-Pacific development Partnership’, and that they guarantee responsible and sustainable exploitation of fishery resources while at the same time contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Develo ...[+++]pment Goals and responding to environmental challenges in the Pacific region; strongly supports the proposal put forward by the Commission and the High Representative aimed at making the Pacific OCTs catalysts for inclusive and sustainable growth for human development in the region, including in the fisheries sector;

1. Urges the Commission to ensure coherence among all the Union policies affecting the Pacific region, as required by Article 208 TFEU, and specifically those on fisheries, trade and development, and to enhance potential synergies with a view to achieving a multiplier effect that maximises the benefits both for the states of the Pacific region and for the EU Member States, while also promoting the international dimension, boosting the EU’s strategic presence, raising the profile of the EU in the Western and Central Pacific, and contributing to the sustainable exploitation of Pacific ...[+++] resources;

42. Endorses the Commission's view that the Pacific Island countries have a major stake in tackling climate change, given the potential effect on the region of rising sea levels; takes note of the Pacific Islands Framework for Action on Climate Change 2006-2015 as a regional mechanism to support responses to climate change and calls for an increase in dialogue between the EU and the Pacific region with a view to tackling climate change and related concerns;

When the United States passed an act to designate Asian- Pacific American Heritage month in 1992, nearly 8 million people in the United States could trace their roots to the Asia-Pacific region out of a total population of 250 million.

To the first of these points, the inseparability of stability, security and economics, in 1995 a survey of senior executives and middle managers doing business in Asia Pacific found that 77 per cent of them regarded political instability to be the major barrier to doing business in emerging markets in the region.

We have a highly profitable market available to us in Japan, markets that will only be enhanced by the commitment that all member countries of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-Operation have made to trade liberalization, indeed free trade, within 25 years throughout Asia and the Pacific.