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Mr President, the Commission too is impatient to see a specific international agenda on the child adopted for the next decade, based on specific measures agreed by our leaders at the special session of the UN General Assembly next month.
Our action plan covers four major causes for concern: health, education, protection of childhood and AIDS/HIV, all of which receive special attention under development cooperation.
The Commission feels that assistance and protection for vulnerable children should be set against the wider context of the fight against poverty and hence within the framework of the Community's development cooperation. Children, from this point of view, are an important target group for external aid, especially in sectoral policies such as education and health.
As far as education is concerned, we recently adopted a communication on education and training as part of the bid to reduce poverty in developing countries. This communication recommends improving the quantity and quality of the education aid we give these countries and reiterates, as many of you have just done, the importance of a rights-based approach.
As far as children involved in armed conflicts are concerned, aid is granted under a number of programmes managed by the Commission, especially the European initiative for democracy and human rights. In addition, the promotion of children’s rights was one of the priorities for allocating resources in 2001 and has been integrated into funding planned for 2002 to 2004.
Finally, we are also making children a horizontal priority in terms of action under humanitarian aid. This takes the form of specific projects, action to protect children deployed inside the Union and research conducted with a view to improving the humanitarian response of the international community. Our actions are in keeping with the wishes which you have just expressed and cover various dimensions of the Union’s internal and external policy."@en1
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