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Thank you Mr President and Commissioner for your willingness to join the few who are involved in this debate in attending this somewhat ‘hallucinatory’ night-time session. I hope you still managed to enjoy a very interesting match between France and Portugal. I am also indebted to the Commissioner for his statement. The Socialist Group in the European Parliament was relieved when the High-Level UN meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York recently stated that there needs to be a great deal of catching-up if the objective of universal access to the prevention of HIV, its treatment and attendant care for all people is to be achieved. Whilst it is indeed true that progress has been made, the UN AIDS report, from which Mr Bowis quoted a few examples a moment ago, clearly shows that our actions should gather momentum.
My group was therefore disappointed that the political statement that has been made contained so little in the way of specific commitments. Hence the importance of this debate and of the meeting in Toronto, where the international community must prove that it takes its commitments really seriously, and that platform must be used not only to enter into political, but also financial, commitments. In Toronto, the countries involved must also be able to make it clear that they are serious about global and cohesive policy on HIV/AIDS.
That is why the European Union must also do its bit and pull up its socks. There are four specific things that I would like to hear from you, commitments that the PSE Group would like to see featured on the Toronto agenda. The 6% for human and social development within the new development cooperation instrument is, to our mind, just a little too low. We would very much like to see this percentage increased.
Secondly, we think it should be possible to spend no less than 50% of official development cooperation on Millennium Development Objectives, among which HIV/AIDS should occupy centre stage.
Thirdly, it is only right and proper, to our mind, that the European Union should commit to sustaining and, ideally, increasing, its contribution to the World Fund.
Fourthly, we would very much welcome it if the Commission were to provide active support to those developing countries that commit themselves to prioritising basic health care and the fight against HIV/AIDS. As the UN report on AIDS states, we know what needs to be done in order to stop AIDS in its tracks. What we now need is the political will and the funds to do it."@en1
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