Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-05-03-Speech-3-152"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-05-03"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20000503.9.3-152"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-05-03-Speech-3-1532
lpv:speaker	lp:Glenys Kinnock2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I also wish to congratulate the rapporteur. Clearly from the comments that we have heard already, the global institutional arrangements intended to underpin food security, as recent experiences testify very clearly, need serious attention. There is actually a loss of confidence in all forms of food aid except for emergency food aid. Internationally negotiated commitments to tackle issues of food security problems are not, in my view, properly understood. There is still an institutional resistance to radical reform of food aid policies. This is summed up by the kind of tinkering on the edges which characterises the re-negotiated Convention. The institutional Treaty-based arrangements for food aid are, in my view, still somewhat outdated and created with a world in mind where food aid was assumed to be a major feature of development and of humanitarian assistance and relief. The arguments have already been made here this evening for compensatory financing, for aid to agricultural development, for export credits and for local sourcing; all of these criteria, all of these priorities are very well understood. Something people have not mentioned is that the European Union has actually gone further towards translating the understanding of these issues into action than any of the other donors, particularly for instance the United States. We welcome the fact that in our food aid budget line we target food security issues and that budget provides financial assistance for food security. That is very important indeed. Clearly the challenge is to meet the needs of the hungry in the most locally sensitive way. We need to see foodstock plans based on knowledge and transparency. We need to have the knowledge of where the foodstocks are, we need to assess where they are and we need to access those foodstuffs when we have identified them. We also need to monitor all foodstocks that are held in the world, both public foodstocks and private foodstocks. Finally, in the context of the WTO debates, we also need to see a guarantee of the legal right of all human beings to access to food. This will mean, and many of us said this in Seattle in the debates, that we would require a food security clause in any future WTO agreements on agriculture. This would represent very real progress in the attempts that we make to tackle food security."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Kinnock (PSE )."1 "inter alia"1

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