Sajjad Karim, on behalf of the ECR Group. – Mr President, I speak as Chair of the South Asia Trade Monitoring Committee. We have constantly been appealing to the Government of Bangladesh to make progress on its commitments under the Everything but Arms scheme, to democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Whilst we can see that there has been an improvement, more needs to be done. The accord is at a critical juncture, and commitments from the Government of Bangladesh towards the Sustainability Compact are highly insufficient, as demonstrated by the technical status report recently published.

The roadmap is here, requirements are on the table, and now we need to see tangible results and steps in the right direction. It must be clear that we are at a crucial stage, and we are moving ever so slowly from issuing further notifications for action to actual action. It has been initiated in terms of investigative reviews for withdrawal of Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) mechanism for Myanmar and Cambodia. Bangladesh could be next on the list.