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". – Madam President, Mr Rod asked if we found his choice of words a little too direct. I certainly do not think the terminology was incorrect. We need to work on a much broader basis on the issue of transparency and the principles of licensing. I just came back from Angola and the discussion about creating more transparency on oil revenue for the government is an extremely important matter. Even if there are not conflicts as such, progress in this area is important also for economic reasons. In the event of conflict, it becomes totally brutal and perverse.
Mr Gahler related what we discussed here to the broader issue of Africa, mentioning also the coming summit in Lisbon. One conclusion is that raising these problems with our friends in Africa collectively injects serious substance into the debates we can have at summits such as the one in Lisbon, which is one good reason why we have to ensure that the summit is a success. We can use those types of meetings to push these issues. Of course, this will be more effective if we have a clear and clean conscience ourselves. This is not just an issue in the form of a narrow debate. I definitely regard the link to using the OECD principles relating to this as a way of advancing transparency in relation to the issue.
For the Commission, this is of the utmost importance. It is not enough to look at the public budget in a narrow sense when we talk about governance in our partner countries. I would mention, by way of example, the good effort which is now being tried out in the funding of the oil pipeline in Chad. This has now been incorporated into a framework of strong conditions governing transparency and the use of the revenue from that pipeline, in the context of the discussions between the World Bank, the IMF, ourselves and the government of Chad. This is just to illustrate that there are many things that it is possible to do in this. But definitely the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo is the worse of them all."@en1
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