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Our position is clear and well known: we are against the war and the US-British occupation in Iraq and we demand the immediate withdrawal of the occupying forces from that country. That position justifies rejection of the proposal that the European Union should finance the reconstruction of Iraq out of its Community budget.
Of course, we support the increase in humanitarian and food aid to the Iraqi population, but we cannot accept that our aid should be used to legitimise what happened or to benefit the aggressor.
Leaving aside positions of principle, it is unacceptable that that aid should be financed to the detriment of the European Union’s cooperation and development policy – in other words, at the expense of the less developed countries – just as it is also unacceptable that there should be no multiannual framework programme, as there was in the case of the Balkans.
We are aware that this report deals with the kind of funding to adopt or, in other words, how to mobilise an extra EUR 185 million which would otherwise have to be found by redeployment from other budget headings. We are also aware that the additional amounts will be used to finance the PEACE programme and the decentralised agencies, and that the agreed amounts are less than what is needed and will not solve the funding requirements."@en1
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