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"Mr President, the issue of European development aid policy has, over the last few years, undergone a marked change. I am thinking in particular of the whole debate in which we participated on renewing the Lomé convention and on establishing the new contractual framework which will succeed the Lomé Convention. I think – and I say this with the authority of someone who has been involved in the negotiations both on Portugal joining Lomé III and in the negotiations on Lomé IV, as president of the Portuguese delegation – that these issues today are very confusing for the general public and especially for governments, and I think that they must be also confusing for Members of this House. How can we judge the real effectiveness of appropriations allocated to development aid in combating the negative factors they are supposed to address?
The Portuguese Presidency’s immediate priority will be to hold an informal meeting in January of development ministers, the purpose of which will be to define a European strategy for development cooperation. We therefore think that it is extremely important, specifically within the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee and in the overall framework of preparing for the next UNCTAD, for us to be able to adopt a collective, organised position in order to have an idea of how the Union’s resources are being used for development aid. Why should we do this? Because our own national parliaments are concerned, just as this Parliament needs to be, at Community level, about the way in which these appropriations are being allocated and used. We are anxious to guarantee that these discussions are useful and productive and that they yield concrete results, chiefly as regards future action at international level.
We also think that the new contractual model defined for the Lomé Convention is a more responsible, balanced and efficient model than the one operating under the previous Yaoundé and Lomé Conventions.
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would also like to say, as a Summit between the European Union and African countries may yet take place, that these development cooperation issues and a general understanding of how development issues might be addressed in the framework of a bilateral relationship between these two zones will, of course, be paramount in our concerns. It will also be one of the central themes of this agenda."@en1
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