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The Foreign Affairs Council also adopted, on 14 November, a decision allowing the European Commission to go forward with the negotiations on a cooperation agreement on partnership and development with Kabul, which will be the first legally binding agreement officialising bilateral relations.

"Perhaps what unites us, if we were forced to make this explicit, would be a wish to see Cyprus through our own eyes and with our own minds, rather than through the officialising lenses or narratives."

The regulation also provides for the interconnection of the CITL and the registry of transactions kept by the Climate Convention Secretariat (ITL), thus officialising the operation under way.

More generally, it proposes to develop cooperation between committees, in particular by giving a greater role to those consulted for opinion and officialising consultations between MEPs and civil society.