Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-05-16-Speech-4-019"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-05-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Sustainable development2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020516.1.4-019"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-05-16-Speech-4-0202
lpv:speaker	lp:Joaquim Miranda2
lpv:spokenAs	chair; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-22--2004-01-31)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-01-31)3 unknown; Partido Comunista Português (1999-07-20--2004-01-31)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2002-01-22--2004-01-31)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-01-31)3 member; EUL/NGL (2002-03-06--2004-01-31)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should like to thank Mr Papayannakis and Mr Lannoye and congratulate them on their important reports. The Johannesburg World Summit is another outstanding opportunity for tackling head-on the vast, complex problems facing the human race, most especially those people who live in the poorest countries. We look forward to it with inevitable expectation and grant it the importance due to an event that may or should lead the international community to draw up an agenda effectively aiming at the sustainable development of the planet, the improvement of living standards and the eradication of poverty, rooted in the agreements reached at the Rio Earth Summit. We should like to be optimistic, even though there are plenty of reasons to hold a different or even opposing view: the enormous delays in complying with the gains made at Rio, the North-South divide, the perpetuation of poverty and the debt itself, the insistence on unsuitable and unfair economic recipes, the lack of political will on the part of the rich countries – especially the United States – to alter guidelines that they themselves determine and to make available the resources needed for world-wide change, which, after all, would benefit everybody. Even recently, Monterrey, despite its last-minute decisions, was yet another reason to dampen our much-needed optimism. Under these circumstances, we must now urge the Member States and the Commission once and for all to adopt a position in keeping with the scourges that affect the world and to push for guidelines, measures and the means needed for fair and sustainable development, linking environmental protection to the eradication of poverty. They must also commit themselves to an ambitious agenda for the next decade that will prevent the unacceptable failure that some already think is bound to result from this World Summit."@en1

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