European Parliament 15 December 1999, European Parliament resolution on the follow-up to Parliament's opinion on Genetically Modified Food Labelling

3. Stresses the importance of multilateral trade talks for the benefit of all countries and peoples as an instrument in the service of sustainable development and, especially, for welfare, prosperity, growth, employment and the eradication of poverty in the world; therefore believes that social aspects, the envir- onment and food safety, accompanied, where necessary, by sufficient development