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". – I want to assure the honourable Member just how seriously we take this issue. It is not just a question of focusing on this programme. I am extremely keen, as we review our programmes for the future, to take on board the exceptionally important report which was recently produced by the UNDP. The honourable Member may recall that the UNDP, under the direction of their distinguished regional director who is, as it happens, a woman, has drawn up a report trying to answer the question of why Arab League countries have not prospered as much as other comparable societies.
The answer to that question was clear: yes, there were problems of governance and the rule of law. Yes, there were problems about education, but there was also a very substantial problem of undervaluing women and the gender issue as a whole in economic, as well as social life in those countries.
I am very keen that we should try to look at our programmes in the region through the prism of that report, which importantly was not written by Europeans or Americans, but by Arabs: Arab men and women, Arab policy-makers, Arab journalists, Arab academics. They have given us an important wake-up call to look at these issues more seriously. I can assure the honourable Member that I take them very seriously indeed and that the Commission takes them very seriously. I am delighted that she has given me the opportunity of making that point - as are our subsequent questioners - and I am delighted that I have been able to speak at some length on it."@en1
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