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Mr President, I would like to congratulate Mr Wynn on an excellent report. As the Development Committee's draftsman, I would like to stress that our Committee's most important condition with regard to the financial perspectives, that of reaching the Millennium Development Goals – the most prominent of which is to halve world poverty by 2015 – has to remain one of the principal objectives of the category for external action.
Money allocated to poverty eradication must be safeguarded from being transferred to meet the Community's other objectives. Therefore clear distinction has to be made between those areas of external action which have different characteristics: pre-action aid, enhanced cooperation development, cooperation humanitarian aid, relations with ACP countries, peace and security and, finally, reserves.
New aid and development assistance is almost invisible. The other agencies we use to deliver our money, aid and assistance take the public credit for our taxpayers' endeavours. This must change: it must stop and stop quickly.
The plan to the budgetise the European Development Fund must not result in a reduction in the overall development finance for ACP countries. These funds must be focused by means of sub-headings, or ring-fenced in their financial perspectives.
I must reiterate that we must keep poverty eradication at the forefront of our development assistance."@en1
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