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"Mr President, I liked what I heard in the Commissioner’s speech. One thing in particular was the theme of respect and partnership; respect for the people of Africa and partnership with them. I would start by saying that if you talk to people from Africa, they say ‘too often you in Europe only talk about drought and famine and all the bad things about Africa, why do you not sometimes celebrate the good things about Africa?’. I think that is what the Commissioner was doing. It is what we should do. We should draw out the talents of Africans. We should build on the resources of Africa.
I very much welcome the Commissioner’s contribution and the communication. Clearly the Millennium Development Goals are fundamental to this. I would like to see even more emphasis on health and education; they were certainly highlighted in his speech, although they take a bit of finding. We went through peace, security, good governance, economic growth, trade and interconnection – whatever that means – before we got there. I am sure those things are all fundamentally important, but so too are health and education.
As a small example the twinning partnerships are highlighted. Yes, twinning partnerships are good: we have them recommended for schools and towns and even museums, why not for hospitals too? Why not for teaching hospitals, why not for health teams and NGOs in the health field?
I would like to see and hear more about the Commissioner’s previous commitments to me on neglected diseases and the reports we have brought through Parliament in the past. There is so much more to be done on that.
I would like finally to highlight one thing which has come from Africa itself, and that is its first food safety plan. We all often call for people to help Africa to make its food safe and secure; here they are doing something about it. However, if I just cite one figure: the failure to meet new food standards that came from the European Union in 2001 resulted in a 64% drop in exports from Africa of cereals, dried fruit and nuts – a loss of USD 670 million. That is just one example of why we need to work with Africa to use its talents to help Africans help themselves."@en1
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