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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-01-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Haiti one year after the earthquake: humanitarian aid and reconstruction (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110118.22.2-610-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-01-18-Speech-2-611-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:James Nicholson2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I had, I suppose, the honour, along with Ms Rivasi, to lead a delegation from the ACP to Haiti in September. I said at the time that nothing prepared me for what I found when we were there. I want to say a number of things tonight. One is that we have got to move immediately from humanitarian aid to reconstruction. This is where the problem has not moved forward. I have heard some very fine things said here tonight, but these are not going to be possible on the ground unless there is more help. We must put more pressure on those who promised their support to deliver that support, and we must put pressure on the Clinton-led reconstruction, and the United Nations, to move faster. That has got to come very clearly. I listened to the Commissioner and he is quite right. We do need political stability. I hope and I pray that we get that political stability, but I am not so sure that we will. I found when we were there – and I want to say this and put it on the record – that the Haitian people are a very proud people. They are a wonderful people. We watched them, Michèle Rivasi and I, coming out of their tents at 6 o’clock in the morning shining like a shilling and with their children washed. Wonderful people smiling and you wondered why they were able to smile. I would also like to put on record a tribute to the many people there from our NGOs who are risking their lives, and to our Commission staff to whom I paid tribute when we were there. We found them to be excellent, and we should not forget that these people risk their lives on a daily basis to help the people of Haiti. We must not forget the people of Haiti. We must work for the people of Haiti and we must help the people of Haiti. If we return to this Chamber ten more times to achieve that, then we should do that and keep doing it."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-17--2014-06-30)3 member; AGRI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Ulster Conservatives and Unionists-New Force (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; REGI (2009-07-21--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2009-09-16--2012-03-18)3 substitute; ENVI (2009-09-07--2012-01-18)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"James Nicholson (ECR )."1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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