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"Madam President, I, too, will begin by mentioning the importance of this report and of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, which has successfully become established as a vital instrument in North-South cooperation. I am sorry that the Council’s representatives were absent from the Kinshasa meeting in 2010, but I hope that the European External Action Service will successfully strengthen its cooperation with this influential and extremely useful parliamentary body in the coming period, as highlighted by the election monitoring missions and the negotiations on concluding the Economic Partnership Agreements.
I support the criticism voiced in the report about the absence from the agenda of the meeting in Kinshasa of any item about the increase in acts of mass sexual violence and the general sense of impunity across Africa, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to UN statistics, a disturbing number of 200 000 women and girls have been victims of rape or sexual violence in Congo during the last 15 years. This is why, in light of this, I call for progress to be made towards including on a permanent basis female leaders, local women’s rights organisations and civil society groups in all of these decision-making processes at every level.
Furthermore, all these regulations about the participation of women, young mothers and children must feature as part of national and regional strategy documents. In the same way, closer EU-ACP cooperation at parliamentary level is vital to the process of strengthening democracy in African, Pacific and Caribbean countries and, by extension, to their parliaments taking a more active role in defending human rights. I should also stress the importance of the fact-finding missions and the interaction between MEPs and members of parliaments in Southern countries, which have fostered transparent processes and resulted, at the moment, in a better assessment of the situation on the ground. Before concluding, I wish to express the hope that all the points mentioned will be taken into consideration for future sessions of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly."@en1
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