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"I voted for this text as it makes clear that the Millennium Development Goals will not be achieved unless substantial progress is made on improving energy access. The World Energy Outlook 2011 of the International Energy Agency (IEA) emphasises that worldwide, about 1.3 billion people have no access to electricity. Access to sustainable energy sources and modern energy services is a prerequisite for economic growth and social development, as well as for the realisation of several of the rights contained in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other international human rights and environmental legal instruments. In addition to that, although there is no Millennium Development Goal specifically related to energy, I strongly believe that energy should move to the forefront of the debate on eradication of poverty. For this reason, the Commission and the Member States must endorse and commit to support the UN’s recently established international target of universal energy access by 2030, and align their policies and development cooperation with this objective. By this same means, we also ask for the establishment, within EU development cooperation, of a specific ‘energy and development’ programme, with special focus on universal energy access."@en1
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