Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-30-Speech-4-011"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:World hunger and the elimination of barriers to trade with the poorest countries2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030130.1.4-011"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-30-Speech-4-0122
lpv:speaker	lp:Mogens Camre2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Dansk Folkeparti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; UEN (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, this resolution contains a long list of excellent observations and proposals. There is almost no aspect of the problem that it does not discuss. That being said, we must, however, state that our arrangements so far have been quite inadequate. We also state in this resolution that the gap between developed and developing countries became wider during the 1990s. I think it important to emphasise three shortcomings of the resolution. First of all, no mention is made of efforts to reduce the birth rate in the developing countries, given that poor countries are quite obviously in no position to create economic growth that can keep pace with the very rapid increase in the number of inhabitants of these countries. Secondly, the resolution contains no discussion of the internal states of affairs that prevent people in the developing countries from living in freedom. We recoil from removing those dictators who destroy people’s living conditions and the structures of their countries. We want to have clean hands, and we believe that everything can be achieved through diplomacy, but we have to observe – as the resolution does too – that a great many of the countries whose populations suffer hardships quite simply do not have the freedom that is necessary for people to be able to change their situation. During the Iraq debate yesterday, we again saw very clearly that we do not want to make a point of removing these dictators by means other than words and diplomacy. Only the United States is prepared to remove the oppressors by force. Thirdly, our resolution indicates the need to reduce tariff barriers, but we forget to say that we lack credibility because our agricultural policy entails our dumping products on the poor countries’ markets, so destroying their own agriculture’s potential. Our civilisation lacks, as it were, the basis for appearing ‘worthy of imitation’, because we cannot implement in our own countries the economic and political changes that are a basic condition for changing the trade situation and for our being at all able to improve the disastrous situation the world is in. It is disgraceful that we are in no position to take more far-reaching decisions in this area. I hope that everyone who votes in favour of this otherwise excellent decision today will be consistent and vote against the EU budgets that authorise the agricultural subsidies so damaging to the developing countries."@en1

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