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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-12-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Immigration policy2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021218.7.3-153"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-18-Speech-3-1542
lpv:speaker	lp:Francisca Sauquillo Pérez Del Arco2
lpv:spokenAs	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--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the will of the Commission in response to the orientations of the European Council to establish a global and integrated policy of migrations is very laudable, but the police and Interior Ministry approach, which can be gathered from the communication, clashes directly with this Parliament’s view of the relations the European Union must maintain with the developing countries, whose immigrants, by the way – and according to the Commission itself – are not a problem from a quantitative point of view. As the Commission itself points out, more than 90% of the world’s immigrants live and work outside the European Union, close to their countries of origin. At the time of the Seville European Council, we warned of the danger of making cooperation for development conditional upon the control of immigration on the part of the countries in which it is generated. Development cooperation is not an instrument for resolving the internal problems of the donors of aid, but a tool for fighting poverty. The origins of migration, whether legal or not, lie in poverty, political repression and armed conflicts. These are the causes which must be combated through development cooperation, rather than using it to repress their effects. This Commission's desire to integrate European immigration policy is a wonderful opportunity to ensure that, instead of spending development funds on monitoring borders and the forced repatriation of immigrants, they are assigned to more constructive activities in accordance with the principle of combating poverty which governs European cooperation policy. It is a question of co-development or, in other words, contributing to the development of the areas of origin of immigrants, so that they can return with hope for the future. In this way, the Commission would be acting coherently with itself, since it states, in the communication we are debating today, that it is aware that the European Union’s relations with the developing countries must be based on solidarity. Article 13 of the Cotonou Agreement on readmission led to problems and protests. Therefore, we say yes to negotiated readmission within the framework of global development programmes, but no to forced repatriation, especially when this is paid for from development funds. We will be vigilant in order to prevent, by means of the reallocation of the scant resources in category 4, any modification of the development priorities established by this Parliament, especially given that the Commission’s report demonstrates the concern at the lack of money available for resolving this problem."@en1

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