Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-04-04-Speech-3-138"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-04-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:UN conference on least-developed countries2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010404.6.3-138"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-04-04-Speech-3-1392
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; EMPL (2000-03-07--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; 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 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I really do hope that the Commission will help ensure that there is no hiding behind mere words with, as a result, resolutions being adopted that consist of non-binding statements in the form of recycled wordings to which the Member States have agreed at other international meetings. If arrangements are to be of immediate effect, as the Commission wishes, the EU must appreciate that the HIPC agreement is quite inadequate. There is a need for an international agreement aimed at genuinely releasing the developing countries from their debts by, for example, integrating the international objectives on poverty so that a sustainable debt is defined on the basis of the countries’ need to combat poverty. At present, a sustainable debt is defined in the HIPC initiative on the basis of non-documented sustainability values, and most of those countries that have obtained debt relief are spending more on debt repayment than on health and education. In short, the EU ought to promote coherence in development policy and supplement this with effective support for developing the infrastructure of the developing countries so that they can carve out a place for themselves on the world market. There are enough tasks to get to grips with. These are already well defined. What we now need is not more words, but action; and action which hopefully does not end up like the ‘Everything but Arms’ initiative in which the Commission produced a fine proposal which, unfortunately, was completely destroyed by the Council which postponed the agreement on rice, sugar and bananas until the year 2009. It is simply scandalous and something we cannot live with here in the European Union."@en1

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