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"Mr President, I am delighted that we are holding a debate on the issue of hunger and poverty. I am one among many to say so, but I cannot help but be pleased. This debate also follows on from the initiative launched by the Quintet last September at the United Nations. Since then, many other voices have been heard on the same subject.
Nevertheless, I would remind you that no specific commitments have yet been made. Only four of the Member States of the European Union are currently meeting the commitment to devote 0.7% of their GDP to development aid. At the rate things are going, the Millennium Development Goals will not be reached in 2015. The problem of ending hunger and poverty is as old as the solutions being put forward to solve it: increasing the quality and quantity of development aid, cancelling and reducing debt, instituting a global tax on capital flows, and reforming international trade rules for fairer trade. In addition, all of the initiatives being put forward today must be in the form of additional resources devoted to development aid and can under no circumstances replace long-standing commitments.
Myself, I will be keeping a close eye on these commitments and on this resolution, because only a firm political will can bring an end to this scourge. Hunger and poverty cannot be reduced to an ephemeral debate subject to the ups and downs of opportunistic media promotion or of charity, however well intentioned."@en1
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