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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The challenge of EU Development Cooperation Policy for the new Member States (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"et"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080313.2.4-022"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-03-13-Speech-4-0232
lpv:speaker	lp:Katrin Saks2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2007-04-24--2009-07-13)3 member; DROI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; IMCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Sotsiaaldemokraatlik Erakond (2006-10-09--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2006-10-09--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3 substitute; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"I would like to thank the rapporteur for a timely and balanced report. I have a couple of remarks to make on matters arising both from earlier debate on the report and from today’s debate in this Chamber. My first point is about the idea that people’s attitude in the new Member States towards development cooperation and humanitarian aid is lukewarm. I think that awareness-raising has a very important role to play in that respect. A study has been carried out in Estonia comparing attitudes today with those of three years ago and even the figures from three years ago show that awareness of development cooperation had improved to such an extent, not only in the institutions but among the general population, that it enabled considerable budgetary support, or an increase in that support, to be given to development cooperation. It is important for the public to know that money is not going into a vast black hole but to specific countries for specific projects. Estonia’s development cooperation is based on the principle that responsibility for development lies primarily with the developing countries themselves: nothing can be achieved by force. For that reason close cooperation is especially important and a very good example of this is provided by the cooperation between Estonia and Georgia. I therefore welcome paragraph 17 of the report, which states that the biggest challenges will be the increase in budgets and awareness-raising, especially among the general public. For example, although the amount allocated to international development by Estonia in 2006 was 0.09% of GDP, the position today is that the amount should rise and we aim to achieve a figure of 0.17% of GDP by the year 2011, in accordance with the development cooperation programme adopted in 2006. I welcome the fact that the proposals made by my colleagues, my Estonian colleagues, were incorporated into the report at the drafting stage and I believe that this marks a fundamental change whereby the new Member States have metamorphosed from recipients of aid into donors of aid; I hope that this support continues to grow."@en1

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