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". – I only need to respond to a few of the speeches. To Mr Howitt I would say, referring to a press statement half a year ago, that the position of the Commission is the one I have stated tonight. We have our own plan. We have our own philosophy and we will cooperate with all parts of society in Colombia to strengthen the role of peace. We do not need to relate to Plan Colombia. What we are doing forms no part of it.
To Mrs Sauquillo I would clarify what the planning is on an indicative basis and how we hope be able to spend the EUR 105 million from the Commission: EUR 40 million to projects in the sphere of social and economic development and combating poverty. This includes a series of decentralised initiatives in the areas of health, education, development of agricultural and traditional production, and coastal fishing. EUR 30 million in support of alternative development, EUR 25 million in support of administrative and judicial reform and EUR 10 million in actions to support the promotion and defence of human rights.
Over and above this we are envisaging a level of around EUR 10 million per year, part of which we expect to be ECHO activities. I mentioned the displaced persons whose numbers keep growing, so we have a clear commitment to continue ECHO’s presence there. We are expecting to stay at the level we have been at in recent years as far as NGO cofinancing is concerned. This has been at a level of EUR 2.4 million; it could be a little more or a little less. We have activities amounting to EUR 1.3 million over recent years for programmes to protect the environment and tropical forests.
Many of these activities will be carried out in cooperation with or through different NGOs. It is essential for us to do this if possible with Colombian NGOs and I will be asking European NGOs when they engage in these tasks to find partners in Colombia as in other cases and create partnerships. This will in fact strengthen the message that we are trying to get across. Some other activities aim to stimulate the government to do what we think is right: to concentrate more on poverty, to take more seriously the social aspects of these conflicts. Here the government of Colombia is the partner we need in our attempts to shape a peaceful development there.
It is not just an issue of whether or not we are using NGOs. This will depend very much on the subject and activity from case to case. But the transformation and the strengthening of a peaceful civil society, which is part of the solution and an element in the solution, can only be stimulated by a stronger involvement of NGOs."@en1
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