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"Mr President, I would thank the rapporteur for a report that the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party can fully support. I should like to take up a subject mentioned neither in the Commission’s announcement nor in the report and so run the risk of its being said that I am operating at too low a level. The subject I want to bring up is that of women’s involvement in the reconstruction programme, and I wish to do so because women and children have always been the major victims when it comes to conflicts, civil wars and wars generally. Assaults upon women, rape, killing and torture are daily fare and have been so for many years recently in the countries of south-eastern Europe. I think it is absolutely crucial, if cultural understanding is to be promoted and a proper reconstruction programme prepared, that women should be involved – and involved very centrally – in the processes concerned. I am taking up this matter because not enough – although, fortunately, a little – has in actual fact been done in this area. It is in fact the case that a gender task force has been established under working party 1, but this has not happened because of any initiative from above but because of an initiative from below when a number of women have – if I may put it like this – approached the conference table and asked if it were not unreasonable for them, in one way or another, to have a central place in the whole of the reconstruction work. It is a number of quite concrete, down-to-earth things these women have proposed, such as developing a proper programme for women and involving women in the general development plans. The initiative is also, of course, about getting women to stand at elections at local, regional and national levels. If, however, the initiative is to succeed, these women also need to receive money for the projects concerned. Otherwise, these will not happen. Moreover, the amount of money involved is small in relation to the other money which, hopefully, will eventually be paid out in this area. I would therefore ask both the Commissioner and the President-in-Office of the Council to take care to ensure that, where future work is concerned, women are involved in the reconstruction processes. I do not, in fact, believe that the project will succeed if that does not happen."@en1
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