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"Mr President, one billion people do not have access to drinking water and three million die every year from diseases caused by poor water quality or lack of water. There are 800 million starving people in the world and 24 000 people die of hunger every day. Twenty-eight million people are living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, of whom 2.3 million died of AIDS last year. These figures are telling and are all too well-known.
The Heads of State and Government, however, are absent from the World Food Summit in Rome this week. These same ministers were incapable of making specific commitments in Bali. The World Health Fund is sorely lacking in financial resources. Worse still, most of the conventions concluded since Rio, ten years ago, are still not being applied. This, of course, is due to the attitude of the United States Government and the multinationals. The worst polluters of the planet deny their culpability and refuse to take action with regard to the victims, the countries of the southern hemisphere.
What are we Europeans doing, apart from pontificating as we did at Monterrey? How do we think dismissing our development advisers, as was proposed at Seville, will contribute to sustainable development? If the Johannesburg Summit fails, the European Union will have to shoulder its responsibility."@en1
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