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"Mr President, I too am very pleased that we are having this debate and that the Commission will be represented at the UN summit. I would like to pay tribute to the NCD alliance of NGOs, which has contributed so much to achieving this result. Like others, including the Commissioner, I stress how much we need to make prevention the cornerstone of our approach, together with research on prevention, treatment and also a possible cure.
Like Mrs Schaldemose, I am particular focused on diabetes, as I have a family member with Type 1 diabetes. It is of course very important across the whole range of NCDs to talk about contributory factors such as smoking, diet, obesity, lifestyle and so on, but can I just put in a plea to remember that tiny babies can have Type 1 diabetes, and they have not had a chance to smoke and become obese and so on.
We are talking not only about premature deaths, but also about the cost of living with diabetes and other NCDs, not only to individuals but to our healthcare systems. So this relates to the fiscal crisis. If we do not do something about the epidemic of NCDs, it is going to be extremely burdensome. We must move beyond platitudes to specific actions with timetables and targets. We must not use the ‘common umbrella’, as Mrs Schaldemose has said, as an excuse for inaction on particular diseases. So I also welcome the pledge of the Danish Presidency – whichever party is in charge – to focus in particular on diabetes."@en1
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