UN General Assembly
2011

there is a complementarity between freedom and trade. Our relations — and now I speak especially about us, the European Union member States — with the countries of North Africa should be based on free trade, which means on trade with a minimum of regulation and arbitrary standards. Prosperity in the countries of North Africa is a guarantee of stability and is also a precondition for preventing growing migration to the countries in Southern and Western Europe. I should also like to mention another issue that I see as crucial, that of nuclear energy. I welcome the fact that the Secretary-General called for a special meeting on this topic. The Czech Republic pays the highest possible attention to nuclear safety and security and supports the further development of nuclear energy. What happened in Japan in March this year was a serious natural catastrophe, and there are certainly lessons to be learned from it. The main lesson is obvious. Even coastal locations, which are seen as seismically stable for urban planning, can be affected