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"Mr Burke, your question concerns three aspects that are closely bound up with cooperation and development: aid effectiveness, the Millennium Development Goals and the volume of aid.
It is a very topical question, with the third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra meeting as from today and with less than a month to go before the high-level meeting on the Millennium Development Goals, to be held in New York on 25 September. Another major event will be the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development, to be held in Doha from 29 November to 2 December, which will review the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus.
The Council is hard at work in relation to all those conferences and has adopted a number of conclusions since June this year. On aid effectiveness, the Council acknowledges that despite some progress much remains to be done. We need to identify the sectors or projects where the Union can make a difference and bring added value in relation to the other donors. No doubt we must also use the national systems and make the recipients of the aid more aware of their responsibilities. That is the objective we have set ourselves for the Accra conference and we hope to see an ambitious strategic declaration in the context of the Accra action plan, setting out strong, precise and measurable objectives with a timetable for their implementation, to make our partners more aware of the importance of improving aid effectiveness.
The second point concerns the Millennium Development Goals. All the partners, both donor countries and recipient countries, have a common responsibility to achieve these on a basis of sustainable development and must respect their commitments. The Council adopted the EU Agenda for Action on the MDGs in June this year and we have set out a number of intermediate goals with a view to achieving them.
Lastly, on the volume of aid, it is true that we are concerned at the fall in the collective volume of official development aid, which fell from EUR 47.7 billion in 2006 to EUR 46 billion in 2007. Yet despite that drop, Europe remains the biggest donor, especially in Africa, and we hope the drop will only be temporary. If the statistics provided by the individual Member States are correct, we should have a very large volume of development aid in 2008 and should be able to attain our Millennium Goals for 2010 and 2015. That is why the Council has asked the Member States to establish rolling indicative timetables to show how they aim to achieve their ODA targets."@en1
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