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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to come back to the interparliamentary encounter between the Pan-African and European Parliaments to comment on two points where a common vision is needed within a common strategy. As in love, words are not enough: we need action and proof. Thus I feel there are two points where we could implement a common vision to really make it part of a common strategy.
The first point, Commissioner, as you said, is budgetary control. Our job is to control outgoing funds and so it is absolutely essential, and it is up to us, to include the European Development Fund (EDF) in the budget in such a way as to allow parliamentary control to be exercised. Our outgoing funds are, of course, incoming funds for our colleagues in the African parliaments. It is vital that they can use national parliamentary controls to handle incomings which, particularly in a budget-support policy, can often be an important lever in their national policies. It is high time, therefore, for us to get down to including the EDF in the budget and provide them with budgetary control mechanisms, with assistance if necessary.
The second point I wish to make concerns joint action within the context of international humanitarian law. International humanitarian law – as you said, Commissioner – is flouted and trampled on, and this is totally unacceptable, and it is often for the extremely surprising reason that there is a war on. International humanitarian law is precisely a law which is applied only in a war situation: it is not a law for times of peace. Thus on this issue we may all insist together, the European Parliament and the Pan-African Parliament in unison, that any person who has ever violated international humanitarian law, especially during a power struggle, cannot be excused, and that we can then impose sanctions on those responsible. These sanctions, however, will serve a genuine purpose and will be properly perceived only if they are transmitted on the ground in Africa, and if the kind of passive complicity we occasionally observe in such cases is curtailed. I believe our parliamentary colleagues would be honoured if we undertook joint reflection on this issue."@en1
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