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"Mr President, we did not ask for this debate simply in order to tell the World Bank what it should do. We also need to know the position of the Council, in which 15 Member States – all playing a very important role in World Bank decision-making – are represented. We want to ask the Council what position it is going to take on this extractive industry report and whether or not it intends to coordinate the position of the Member States in this respect.
In the Mr Roche's interesting remarks I did not hear the answer to this question; the very reason we asked for this debate. We are convinced that we must have parliamentary scrutiny of what the World Bank does, and also that we, as a European Union institution, need to know what our Member States do when they are in the World Bank. So the World Bank is not something outside this institution or outside your institution, Mr Roche.
Mr Vitorino said very clearly that he thought, and that the Commission thought, that the most important recommendation had to be supported. I repeat: I would like to know what the position of the Council is, if any, and if there is any intention of having any kind of discussion on this point.
We think that discussion of this issue in the Council is absolutely crucial for two reasons. Firstly, because the conclusions of the report say very clearly that investing in the oil, mining and gas sectors does not in itself reduce poverty. Sometimes, as you heard in the report, it is detrimental, and this is also of importance to the European Union. Secondly, we are convinced that if the World Bank's objective is to reduce poverty and alleviate the exclusion of indigenous populations and poor people, we cannot continue to support a method of financing a project that is detrimental from this point of view. So please, Mr Roche, tell us what you are going to do."@en1
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