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I very much share Mrs Dybkjær’s point of view. The impression has been given that the abbreviation NGOs might almost be read as standing for
. But when we consider ECHO’s work, we are talking here about situations following wars and crises in which the societies concerned have fallen apart and in which, in general, it is a question of establishing structures in the societies concerned. I very much agree that members of the various parliaments are naturally important elements but, if we take countries like Somalia, Sudan and other such places, we are forced to take what there is by way of structures in the so-called civil society and try to help these structures become parts of a civilised society. In connection with our efforts as a whole in this area – and not just those involving ECHO and humanitarian aid – a lot of people have asked whether we have not got things the wrong way around in insisting that elections be held quickly. Cambodia was one example, Angola another. Some people think that, in these cases, we insisted too quickly that elections should be held and the formal structures of democracy created. On the other hand, insisting on these things has worked well in many cases, so I agree that we should be pressing for the outward and formal structures of democracy to be established. This is the way in which – as soon as structures of this kind have been established – parliamentarians become the decisive players, in civil society too.
With regard to the part of the question concerned with the role to be played in what we are doing by members of the parliaments concerned – and that is another way of looking at the question – I want to say that the debate itself, the very dialogue between the Commission and Parliament about the policy we are to pursue, is for me the decisive factor, and it is from there that we get the decisive inspiration."@en1
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