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"Mr President, while I support what the Commissioner has said in his statement, I believe that this debate concerns an immense scandal taking place in the world and in our societies. The figures provided by my fellow Members are sufficiently clear: 3 000 children die each day, particularly in the sub-Saharan countries, as a result of the disease which has been fully studied and the prevention and treatment for which is entirely within our capacity.
To meet the challenge to our countries represented by this scourge is an issue on which the consistency, credibility and, of course, dignity of the European Union and the developed north in general is at stake. I therefore believe that if we are not able to deal with this problem effectively, we will not have the moral authority to talk about values or human rights; specifically, to talk about human rights in Geneva to a country such as Cuba, which has been able to eradicate this disease in its territory and which has more doctors in sub-Saharan Africa fighting this disease than the 25 states of the European Union put together."@en1
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