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"The Council is aware of the tragic situation of millions of children living in the majority of developing countries in general, and in Africa in particular, especially due to their vulnerability to famine, violence, infectious diseases and above all, of course, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
The Council would like to point out that the eight Millennium Development Goals target children either directly or indirectly. The Council does not believe that it will be possible to achieve these goals by 2015 without a coherent policy for children in the developing countries. The Council has highlighted the need to focus specifically on children in implementing the European Union’s development policy, through a series of recent initiatives.
On 16 December 2004, the European Council confirmed the European Union’s firm commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. During this session, the Council indicated its firm support for the European action plan to combat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, through external action. The Commission presented them at the end of April 2005.
Joint action between the European Union and the Member States, in cooperation with the main international organisations in the sector, including UNICEF, and with teachers and parents associations in the partner countries is planned. The review process of the joint declaration of November 2000 on the European Union’s development policy is underway. A communication from the Commission on the future development policy is expected at the end of June. During the extended consultation process, several subjects were identified as possible priority themes, which definitely included child protection. It should also be pointed out that at Community level, in 2004 Parliament and the Council adopted Decision 803/2004 adopting the Daphne II programme to prevent and eradicate violence, particularly against children.
In conclusion, children are a fundamental dimension of European Union development policy and the Council intends to highlight this priority, both in the context of preparing for the summit on the attainment of the Millennium Goals, which will take place in September 2005 in New York, and in the process of formulating the Union’s future development policy."@en1
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