Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-02-Speech-3-054"
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"To Mrs Maes first, the way we want to move forward is to participate fully as a donor in funding the realisation of sector programmes that are better organised than what we have done so far at country level. It also has an impact on the demand that UN organisations have to meet, when all donors are more disciplined. We are also raising the expectation that members of the UN family will play their part more in consultation with other donors: this has worked with the World Bank to a reasonable extent in very recent years and this is the same disciplining.
As regards the humanitarian side, it is quite different. There, the main reason why we should support the UN instances is that they very often have the special mandate to do things where they have access and where others may have great difficulties. We are trying to establish a balance using them and NGOs. The only thing is coordination, but for example UNHCR has a special mandate and we have to be careful not to leave them marginalised.
Mr Miranda, quite frankly the Commission is not proposing anything today, which would surprise those who have been discussing these issues with me over recent years. This is very much in line with what I have announced as the next logical and necessary step. We will discuss it and it is important that we try to work out the same kind of well-informed consensus on this step as we managed to do on the overall policy paper. This is part of implementing those ideas and we will both manage to do things more efficiently, also having more influence. This ability is fine, but not enough and if it is a visible PR stunt, I prefer the kind of visibility that comes from professional respect and getting real influence on the global scene. This is what we are aiming at.
Mr Khanbhai, this discussion about the global fund is in one way easy to understand and we can quite sympathetically step up the effort against communicable diseases to the extent that the creation of this fund actually mobilises new and additional money from new private sources. We welcome it and we may also participate, but the real problem is delivery on the ground. This is where the UN organisations need to answer our questions more directly and where we have to become better at actually doing things. This is the bottleneck of the fight against these diseases, not whether we are adding EUR 100 million from money which is already devoted to do this job. The reality on the ground is the bottleneck and we should never forget this in this discussion. There are many fashions of the month in the discussion on these issues and I will be quite stubborn, with the support from this House, and stick to what we have defined."@en1
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