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Proliferation in ParliamentBack to Proliferation in Parliament, December 2007 - February 2008 European ParliamentUS anti-missile defence system (debate), Part-Session, 30 January 2008Text available at: Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Member of the Commission. Mr President, I will be very brief today, because the Commission has very little competence in this matter. But let me say that interaction between the United States of America, Russia and the EU Member States in the areas of security and defence has wider implications for these important partnerships. That is clear. Therefore, although, as I said, we really do not have competence or responsibility in this question, we hope that a balanced solution can be found that is, in the end, satisfactory for all. We have welcomed, from the very beginning, the high-level talks that started in Moscow last October, followed by expert meetings. And we see in the recent direct dialogue between Moscow and Warsaw an opportunity to clarify respective positions in respect of national sovereignty. In conclusion, in whatever forum these issues are discussed, be it NATO
or be it the OSCE, I think it would be important that decisions on the
future of the European security architecture should also involve the European
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