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The most important aspects of development cooperation are to fund measures to combat poverty and disease and to find solutions to problems of education whilst establishing a culture of safeguarding fundamental human rights.
I am wholeheartedly in favour of adopting measures that could help achieve these aims of helping the poorest members of society and, because I believe that the rapporteur’s suggestions could contribute to achieving these objectives, I supported this report.
I must, however, express some concerns that I fear may not have been given due consideration.
Firstly, we must bear in mind the appalling disparities between the realities faced in developing countries and those in our own. In societies where the main struggle is for survival, we must not dilute these prime objectives in any way. Furthermore, we must clearly define what we mean by ‘sexual and reproductive health,’ to ensure that the meaning underlying this reasonable concern is not distorted and transformed into a byword for developing international programmes to promote abortion, which I would have to reject outright. It must always be stated that ‘sexual and reproductive health’ means preventing sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, and guaranteeing women decent conditions for pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal care."@en1
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