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The Martinez Martinez report calls on Parliament to approve the Commission’s 2001 annual report on its development policy and the implementation of external assistance. We voted against the report to highlight both our opposition to the Commission’s policy and its justification.
Even the report from the very official UNDP notes that the situation in most poor countries deteriorated in the previous year and that, for some of them, it is disastrous. Under these conditions, the very title of the report, which refers to development policy, is an insult to these hundreds of thousands of human beings whose situation, rather than improving, is only getting worse.
The fact that the report dares to welcome the Commission’s emphasis on poverty reduction is a further insult. The amount of aid provided is pitiful; it comes nowhere near the amounts the pillage of these countries yields to oil, building and maritime traffic trusts and the countless European enterprises that are growing rich on the meagre wages paid in these countries.
The report calls for specific measures to protect indigenous populations. Quite apart from the language, which is redolent of colonial times, what the poor countries, and particularly Africa, must be protected from above all, is these predators, the large cartels…"@en1
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