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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-04-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Famine in Ethiopia2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000412.5.3-167"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-04-12-Speech-3-1682
lpv:speaker	lp:Carlos Bautista Ojeda2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-09-15--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2003-07-06)3 unknown; Partido Andalucista (1999-07-20--2003-07-06)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, it is terrible and disappointing for mankind that every now and again we hear these cries of pain from Africa begging for food and water, in the 21st century. Why do we still allow this to happen? Do we not have a conscience? Every day the European Union provides less funding, less aid, in global terms, to the poor countries of Africa. So how can we be surprised at this situation? How can it be that we have warehouses full of surplus food which we are obliged to destroy when it rots away pointlessly or when it does not meet the conditions for consumption which we demand? There are reasons to justify this, but none of them justifies the death of a single person from starvation. It is not true that we show solidarity. No. All we do is try to put the fire out with occasional aid, without a clear or decisive policy for prevention although we know perfectly well that famine in Africa, and in the third world in general, happens periodically. I hope that these thousands of tonnes of food aid provided do not silence the media and that they continue to report on the tragedy in Africa. I am not saying anything new. It has been said a million times and it will be said again, but today I am speaking from the heart and I feel Africa’s pain as if it were my own. When will we have a Marshall Plan for Africa? To this end, I propose that there be set up a prestigious and independent committee of international experts to assess the situation together with the international organisations and to implement a series of urgent proposals and initiatives for food and health aid, acting immediately, planning for the future and putting all our humanitarian weaponry into the hands of the non-governmental organisations."@en1

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