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"We abstained from voting on this report, just as we shall abstain on the report concerning the fisheries agreement with Angola for one and the same reason. It really is not our intention to be obstructive if there is the remotest possibility that the people in these two countries who earn their living from fishing might receive a share of the licence fees paid by the European Union for fishing rights in the waters of Côte d’Ivoire or Angola, even though we are aware that such a share would at best be minimal.
What we are condemning is the hypocrisy involved in speaking of granting aid to these countries and the even greater hypocrisy of claiming to be helping their people. The very figures cited by the European Parliament rapporteurs reveal the extent to which such agreements are governed by relations that are disgusting in their lack of fairness; we see, for example, that the licence fees paid to Côte d’Ivoire by European vessels have not risen over the past ten years, in spite of inflation. It is also apparent that the European contribution to the same country in 2003 will have fallen to less than half of the 1991 level. And then we see in black and white that the European Union reserves the right to suspend payment of its licence fees for fishing rights to Côte d’Ivoire and Angola in the event of civil unrest in those countries.
Whether they are cloaked in the mantle of ‘aid’ or ‘agreements’, these figures and these one-sided clauses speak only of exploitation of the African continent by the European powers."@en1
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