VIENLARGEMENT PAGEREF _Toc6731707 \h VISTAFF REGULATIONS - Council conclusions PAGEREF _Toc6731708 \h VIEU ACTION PLAN ON FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM : STATE OF PLAY PAGEREF _Toc6731709 \h VIIILLEGAL IMMIGRATION - Council conclusions PAGEREF _Toc6731710 \h VIIWIDER EUROPE : RELATIONS BETWEEN THE FUTURE ENLARGED EU AND ITS EASTERN NEIGHBOURS PAGEREF _Toc6731711 \h VIIIINDIA / PAKISTAN PAGEREF _Toc6731712 \h VIIIEU-SWITZERLAND RELATIONS - Council conclusions PAGEREF _Toc6731713 \h VIIIEUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY (ESDP) : State of play PAGEREF _Toc6731714 \h VIIIMIDDLE EAST PAGEREF _Toc6731715 \h IXWESTERN BALKANS - Council conclusions ...[+++] PAGEREF _Toc6731716 \h IXEU RELATIONS WITH CENTRAL AMERICAN AND ANDEAN COMMUNITY COUNTRIES - Council conclusions PAGEREF _Toc6731717 \h XEURO-MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP - Council conclusions PAGEREF _Toc6731718 \h XIAFGHANISTAN - Council conclusions PAGEREF _Toc6731719 \h XIZIMBABWE - Council conclusions PAGEREF _Toc6731720 \h XIIIOTHER BUSINESS-Belarus : relations with the OSCE PAGEREF _Toc6731722 \h XIV-Venezuela PAGEREF _Toc6731723 \h XIVITEMS APPROVED WITHOUT DEBATE EXTERNAL RELATIONS --Turkey PAGEREF _Toc6731726 \h XIV--Slovenia PAGEREF _Toc6731727 \h XIV--Russia PAGEREF _Toc6731728 \h XIV--Moldova PAGEREF _Toc6731729 \h XIV--EU-US Summit PAGEREF _Toc6731730 \h XIV--EU-Canada Summit PAGEREF _Toc6731731 \h XV--Association with Hungary PAGEREF _Toc6731732 \h XVCFSP --Implications of the terrorist threat on the non-proliferation, disarmament and arms control policy of the EU - Council conclusions PAGEREF _Toc6731734 \h XVTRADE ISSUES --Jute PAGEREF _Toc6731736 \h XIX--Antidumping : Ammonium nitrate from Russia PAGEREF _Toc6731737 \h XIXECOFIN --Council recommendation on the appointment of the Vice-President of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank PAGEREF _Toc6731739 \h XIX--Labour force sample survey PAGEREF _Toc6731740 \h XIXENVIRONMENT --Quality of petrol and diesel fuels PAGEREF _Toc6731742 \h XX--Waste statistics PA ...

2.3. Lending within the Framework of Council Decision 97/256/EC, as amended by Council Decisions 98/348/EC and 98/729/EC : Central and Eastern Europe, The Mediterranean Countries, Asian and Latin American Countries, The Republic of South Africa, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Fyrom) and Bosnia-Herzegovina

(9) Whereas the Council calls on the EIB to continue its operations in support of investment projects carried out in the Central and Eastern Europe countries, Mediterranean countries, Latin American and Asian countries and South Africa;

COUNCIL DECISION of 14 April 1997 granting a Community guarantee to the European Investment Bank against losses under loans for projects outside the Community (Central and Eastern Europe countries, Mediterranean countries, Latin American and Asian countries and South Africa) (97/256/EC)

II. SOLEMN DECLARATION OF FLORENCE ON THE RENEWAL OF THE SAN JOSÉ PROCESS The European Union and the Member Countries of the Central American Integration System (SICA), - recalling the Final Act of the Luxembourg Conference of 11 and 12 November 1985 giving institutional shape to the political and economic dialogue, - aware of their espousal of common values and principles, such as representative democracy, the Rule of Law and constitutionalism and full respect for universal human rights and fundamental freedoms, - recognizing the significant contribution of the San José Dialogue's first decade and ensuing cooperation to the peace process, the consolidation of democracy, social and economic development in Central America and revitalizing a ...[+++]nd strengthening the integration process in the region, - persuaded that these achievements should be consolidated and that their relations should be deepened by gearing the objectives and mechanisms of the dialogue and also its content and methods of cooperation to the fresh challenges and new priorities facing them, - highlighting the consistency of the General Guidelines recently adopted by the European Council for Cooperation with Latin America and the priorities defined by the Central American Presidents in the Alliance for Sustainable Development, have, on the occasion of the Twelfth Ministerial Conference in Florence on 21 March 1996, decided to strengthen the San José process along the following lines: Objectives of the San José process The Parties have reaffirmed their resolve to continue the political and economic dialogue launched in 1984 at the San José Conference.

Multilateral cooperation will thus be strengthened by the launch of new negotiations on bilateral Free Trade Agreements with ASEAN, Korea, India, the Andean and Central American countries, as well as by the continuation of talks with Mercosur and the Gulf Cooperation Council.