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". – First to Mrs Kinnock, as I said before, in the area of humanitarian aid the organisational problems and the challenges on how to do things are not as complex as when we look at the transitional phase and general phase. The tensions on the ground – here I would respond also Mrs Sauquillo's question concerning the relation between NGOs and UN organisations – have very often been a big problem. Things are better now than they used to be. There is more of an acceptance of the need for a professional manner of work also among humanitarian NGOs, and of the need and the obligation to accept coordination as part of our contracts with anybody we are funding. So from case to case it looks somewhat better today.
I have already mentioned protection and security. In Chechnya, the access to using radios has been discussed with the Russian government since the troubles started and only now is it possible to have that additional little element of security, but without the UN being there as those who can actually handle this part of the whole work, no one would ever get permission to have radios. This is good and clear and this is being discussed now more and more internationally. This is one of the aspects I mentioned in connection with the special mandate of some of these global UN organisations so we need a division of labour between specialised NGOs and the umbrella, in some cases, of UN organisations.
As a very large humanitarian donor, we need to be able to play on all the instruments available and by entering into a more structured relationship as we are foreseeing now, we shall also have a stronger voice in the discussion on these issues with the UN organisations, compared to just an on-and-off donor.
To Mr Corrie, the figure of how much we are allocating in the ninth European Development Fund of 90% covers both the least developed countries and the low-income group of countries. It is these two added together which is the 90%. On capacity building we need everybody who is able to do it, UNDP, World Bank and ourselves: this is such a big job that we should not even think of doing everything ourselves. Let me remind Parliament that in the overall development policy paper, we have specified areas of special focus, which also means that we will frankly have to rely on others doing more in the areas where we will do less, and we have Member States who will and can do this. But we also have the global system and it is in order not to exclude that type of partnership that we are doing what we are now.
Regional cooperation: we are using very clearly the Economic Commission for Africa and the other relevant UN players and they are extremely interested in the bold, ambitious line followed by the Commission in trying to organise the geo-economics especially of Africa. We have a good partnership in this and good support.
Finally, that part of Mrs Sauquillo's question dealing more or less with visibility and clarity of our policy. This is the self-confidence. We could also look at this the other way around: we have now reached the point where we have some certainty and clarity and strong support for the line that we have defined. Now we feel we have the strength and maturity to discuss more globally with the UN system. We were not that organised before in this field, so we are increasing the ambition of influencing what goes on globally, and this is the thought behind it."@en1
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