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The fight against all forms of poverty requires global commitment involving the international community and it is the most developed countries that have the greatest responsibility in this regard.
Reducing by half the number of people living in extreme poverty, containing the spread of HIV/AIDS and universal access to primary education across the world are aims that are worthy of support across the board and are issues to which the EU must not turn a blind eye.
Accordingly, I voted in favour of the motion for a resolution because I feel that the millennium development goals constitute targets that the EU, as defender and promoter of human rights, must support and foster. If they are achieved, they will represent significant global progress and a sign of genuine, practical and effective humanism.
Nevertheless, I feel compelled to point out and to express my disappointment at the attempts made to manipulate concepts by using language in Parliament designed to muddy the waters on these objectives, the most glaring example of which is the use of euphemistic expressions to mean, purely and simply, the spread and encouragement of abortion. In this section, I voted against. One can hardly say that such practices represent victory over poverty; rather, they are defeats for the human race."@en1
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