Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-16-Speech-4-106"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Humanitarian crisis in North Korea2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030116.7.4-106"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-16-Speech-4-1072
lpv:speaker	lp:Jill Evans2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, there is currently a serious humanitarian crisis in North Korea. In bitter winter conditions, the combination of few or no energy sources and lack of food is crippling. So the Verts/ALE Group welcomes the Commission's decision to provide EUR 9.5 million in food aid to North Korea. But there is a need to reconsider fundamentally our approach to ensuring energy supplies. The Korean Energy Development Organisation, KEDO, was unsuited to meeting the country's needs and infrastructure, and this situation cannot be allowed to continue. We condemned it and the European Union's approach to the energy crisis needs to be completely overhauled. I was pleased to hear Commissioner Patten declare that the European Union will have to develop an alternative energy programme for North Korea. We welcome the Commission's position on this, and we look forward to the development of a suitable programme. We need to look again at our policy of cooperation with North Korea in terms of a poverty alleviation programme to offset the effects of introducing a market economy, democratic reforms and respect for human rights, and official diplomatic recognition for North Korea by other states as well as the European Union. This would open up opportunities for North Korea to access funds from the IMF, the Asian Development Bank and others. The key, as Mr Swoboda said earlier in this debate, is to continue to talk, to continue with the negotiations and, above all, to work for a peaceful solution to this crisis."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-07--2004-04-30)3 vice-chair; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Plaid Cymru - Parti of Wales (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Evans, Jillian (Verts/ALE )."1

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