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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the guidance note on disability serves as a benchmark for taking account of disability issues in development policy. Incidentally, I would like to thank the honourable Member for the specific and obviously very interesting light he has shed on this very serious problem.
The note provides a series of guidelines and practical suggestions; it is not therefore really a question of implementing it as such but rather of ensuring it is circulated widely among the personnel concerned. It has already been widely circulated in the RELEX family of directorates general and the delegations. In addition, a training session on disability was held in September 2005. The Commission has also distributed its note externally. It has been published in the form of a brochure in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese and placed on the Internet.
The inclusion of disability in development policy is also covered by point 97 of the European Consensus on Development, which you approved a few weeks ago. That point is concerned with preventing social exclusion and combatting all forms of discrimination, including that based on the condition of disabled persons. To that end, it stipulates that the Community will promote social dialogue and social protection. The national level is the most appropriate for implementing this dimension. Preventing exclusion and fighting discrimination will therefore be done on request and on the basis of dialogue with the partner countries. Any disability-related programmes will therefore be developed on that basis and at that level.
Obviously, the Commission is in favour of improving outcomes in health and education by means of projects and, increasingly, by budget support. Political dialogue is an integral part of that support and it is within the framework of that political dialogue that the Commission is able to answer the calls made in this debate.
The Commission will therefore try to encourage the inclusion of disability or of disabled persons in our partner countries’ development strategies while respecting this principle of appropriateness. We will be trying to convince governments that it is important to tackle these questions effectively. Obviously, we will be throwing all our weight into the battle so far as this is concerned.
I am fully aware of the tragic situation of disabled persons, a situation that is all the more tragic in the developing countries and especially among the poorest, because I witness these human tragedies very regularly; that is why I am very happy to be speaking to you about it now. I also have to confess that I also sometimes witness the lack or total absence of interest in the disabled, not to say their exclusion, in some utterly deprived societies. I am therefore entirely convinced that your desires, your attention and your concern are justified and I will not fail to use all the power at the Commission’s disposal to deal more specifically with this question."@en1
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