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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-11-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Response of the European Union to the deteriorating situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20081119.3.3-012"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-11-19-Speech-3-0132
lpv:speaker	lp:Jürgen Schröder2
lpv:spoken text	". – Mr President, currently we are facing a financial crisis which will go down in the history books. Nevertheless, in only a few weeks, it was possible to set up a G20 meeting which delivered concrete results, the most notable of which was the decision to use 2% of GDP to stimulate the economy and help the financial sector. On the other hand, we have not managed to fulfil our commitment to use 0.7% of GDP for development. If we had done so, the DRC would certainly be more developed and maybe this entire conflict would not have happened at all. But let us take things as they are. We do not have time now to discuss development for Kivu: we are facing a humanitarian crisis there. Two hundred and fifty thousand additional people have been displaced over recent weeks. People are dying as a direct or indirect result of the fighting, and diseases such as cholera are spreading rapidly. Since 2005, the UN has accepted the concept of responsibility to protect. The UN sent the peacekeeping force MONUC to the DRC. With 17 000 troops, MONUC is the largest peacekeeping mission in the world operating under a strong Chapter 7 mandate. But what can MONUC do? The quality of soldiers and equipment is very poor and the size of the DRC is enormous. I therefore strongly support the call to strengthen MONUC, but realistically speaking, it will be months before this reinforcement can be on the ground – precious months, during which people will die. For that reason, I propose sending a short-term European force to stabilise the region quickly until the reinforcement of MONUC is operational and deployed in the field."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with Afghanistan (2007-04-24--2009-07-13)3 member; DEVE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; REGI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-22--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2007-05-23--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2006-01-19--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Jürgen Schröder,"1 "on behalf of the PPE-DE Group"1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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