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"Mr President, I supported the report by Ms Nedelcheva when I was able to accompany her on the mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo along with other Members. I have seen few peoples with a greater manifest desire to establish democracy and participate in it.
However, in order to believe in democracy, a people needs to believe in its state and its government, and that will only be possible with electoral support or external aid. They also need there to be a requirement to fight corruption and to bring an end to the obscene paradox of living in poverty in one of the most resource-rich countries in the world. It must be stated, and also condemned, that part of the violence that they are experiencing is imported, or at least fuelled by the unscrupulous multinationals from Europe and other continents that are capable of participating in corruption, not caring whether they are fuelling the battles for those resources, in order to gain favour with those who are running certain areas.
Therefore, Baroness Ashton, although it does not fall entirely within your competence, I will say that a greater demand for traceability and transparency from European and other multinationals that operate there would be as useful for the development of this people as the aid that we can provide on an electoral or technical level."@en1
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