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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the report before us today is a crucial one. Not only are tuberculosis, AIDS and malaria a cause of suffering for many, many people, they have also became real obstacles to the economic, social and cultural development of entire regions of our planet. Furthermore, they undermine the other initiatives we are taking to create a fairer world. It is therefore vital that the initiative we are considering today, which aims to combat these scourges of poverty by injecting considerable sums of money – over EUR 800 million – into the development of new drugs, should be approved at first reading and implemented as soon as possible, because the situation is urgent. The lives of 5 million people a year are at stake.
We have every right to be proud of this important initiative, because it is a model research programme to be jointly undertaken by the European Union, the Member States and associated countries, and we have the right to hope that it will inspire other actions so that similar attention is focussed on other diseases that are taking a heavy toll on the poorest people on our planet.
This initiative is, however, also a model for the new philosophy needed for North-South relations – relations which do not involve exploitation, domination or paternalistic aid, but rather relations based on partnerships with a view to promoting the technological independence and development of the countries concerned, and their active participation in the implementation and coordination of the programme.
By the same token we should also be considering the price of patented drugs, and the development of public health services in developing countries. I of course have in mind GATS and TRIPS, where the concept of partnership has been swept aside in favour of ideas about intellectual property and liberalisation. I wish to plead once again for cooperation and the development of synergies within the Commission.
Lastly, Mr President, I would like to thank Commissioner Busquin for having given us, through the Sixth Framework Programme, the resources to develop this programme, and I would also like to thank Mr Caudron once again for the quality of his work. I would also like to say that I believe that we are just at the beginning of a long haul."@en1
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