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"Mr President, as others have said, those who have suffered so much in this disaster want more than just promises of support or the transfer of money from one disaster to another – from Africa to Aceh for example. After all, when USD 1.6 billion was raised for relief in Iraq it was largely at the expense of Africa. We need new, additional money, and the needs of victims of other crises, such as those in Sudan, Congo, Haiti, Liberia and northern Uganda, should not be forgotten.
Our efforts should moreover not be at the expense of the eight million people who die every year from preventable diseases such as malaria. I would urge the Commission to look again very closely at the ACP's request to have their own disaster warning facility and would also urge that particular attention be paid to the needs of Somalia and the Seychelles, where thousands of people have been displaced and their livelihoods destroyed.
One of the paragraphs in our resolution opposes the use of the EDF B envelope to support those countries in East Africa. Indeed, it is very unclear how funds can be made available for Somalia from an EDF envelope from which it does not even benefit."@en1
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