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"I voted in favour of this report concerning the Commission communication on the annual report on humanitarian aid in 2000-2001, because I agree with the rapporteur's diagnosis of the situation and also with many of her proposals. As the draftsman of the opinion of the AFET Committee says: ‘the key objective of EU humanitarian action is to respond promptly and efficiently to the needs of the victims of humanitarian crises, in order to alleviate their suffering in a spirit of human solidarity. It goes without saying that political considerations have no place in such an area’.
I attach particular importance to the rapporteur's warning that there has been a downward trend in the amount of emergency humanitarian aid, ‘aid making it possible immediately to save lives’.
I consider it vital, in order to counter this trend, and as has indeed already been proposed, to strengthen action under ECHO, and to develop awareness-raising campaigns for the citizens of the European Union, so as to bring these actions closer to the public, and of course to reverse the negative trend identified in the budget.
One of our priorities should be to improve coordination of humanitarian aid and of aid providers so as to avoid the kind of situation that recently occurred in Angola when aid was ‘guaranteed’ but was very slow in coming through on the ground. Our response mechanisms need to be made far more flexible."@en1
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