Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-09-13-Speech-4-292-101"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-09-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120913.29.4-292-101"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-09-13-Speech-4-292-1092
lpv:speaker	lp:Mário David2
lpv:spokenAs	member; SEDE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; INTA (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partido Social Democrata (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2009-09-17--2014-06-30)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2009-09-17--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Finally, two years later and following the ‘green light’ from the World Trade Organisation, this ‘urgent’ process, which will grant emergency autonomous trade preferences, namely, exclusive preferences, to Pakistan, following the devastating floods in 2010, is finished. As shadow rapporteur of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) for this report and a Member for Portugal, I closely monitored this process and twice submitted questions to the Commission and the Council on this issue. What was in question was essentially the use of EU trade policy as a tool for humanitarian policy, an unparalleled precedent in the history of the EEC or the EU. I therefore voted against this report. This does not mean that I am against humanitarian aid to Pakistan as a response to emergency situations created by floods, conflicts and Afghan refugees. Far from it, in fact! As a European, I commend and support without reservation the amount of EUR 2.458 billion in humanitarian aid being granted to the Pakistani population for the period 2009-2013 by the Member States and the Commission. What I do not understand is the rationality of insisting on a precedent of using trade policy as a tool for humanitarian aid, nor do I believe that this is possible to achieve."@en1

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