Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-30-Speech-4-044"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-01-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Aid for poverty diseases2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030130.2.4-044"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-30-Speech-4-0452
lpv:speaker	lp:Marie-Arlette Carlotti2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (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; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, we have been waiting for this regulation. It should enable us, at last, to launch the European Union’s action plan on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in the countries of the South. This is a matter of urgency, because these diseases continue to kill millions of people every year, essentially in the developing countries, and, as we know, the diseases are in the South and the medicines are in the North. By means of Mr Wijkman’s report, we have to decide on two fundamental public health issues in the countries of the South. First of all, there is the issue of the financial resources which the European Union will be devoting to the fight against these three diseases in the coming years. On this point, the adoption of this regulation is an important step forward, but I should like to think that it is only the first step, because in June 2001, at the United Nations, the international community undertook to achieve, by 2005, the objective of seven to ten billion US dollars of annual expenditure exclusively to combat HIV/AIDS in developing countries. We are therefore a long way from our goal, and if Europe wants to fulfil its obligations, it will have to go beyond the EUR 351 million over four years, which is what the rapporteur is proposing and what we are proposing together with him. The second issue at stake in this regulation is the political support expressed by the European Union for the countries of the South in their struggle to promote public health. On this point, the Committee on Development and Cooperation has done a good job. From now on, this regulation will contain an explicit and unequivocal reference to the Doha declaration on intellectual property, which recognises the specific rights of the countries of the South. It will also contain a reference to the facilitation of access to medicines in developing countries by making those medicines available at the lowest possible prices. However, this political support from the European Union should, above all, be expressed and manifested to the WTO in no uncertain terms. In this respect I deplore the failure of the negotiations of last December on the clarification of Article 31 of the intellectual property agreements. In order to escape from this impasse, the European Union must unreservedly support the proposals of the countries of the South. That is the request, Commissioner, which I am asking you to pass on to Commissioner Lamy."@en1

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