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"Mr President, 17 million people are affected by famine and drought in the Sahel, and 8 million of them are in a near desperate situation. To date, the Commission has released humanitarian aid of EUR 123 million to combat the food crisis in 2012, and development aid of EUR 164 million. As well as this famine, there is the increase in criminal and terrorist gangs, whose funding comes from drug trafficking activities ranging from Guinea-Bissau to Somalia, with cocaine from Latin America and heroin from Afghanistan. Military intervention in Libya has thrust the region into instability by displacing refugees into all the neighbouring countries and enabling Libyan militias and weapons to destabilise everything. Mali was the first to pay for the Libyan operation, but Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Mauritania are not getting away unscathed. What more can Europe do than it already is doing? At the last meeting of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and the EU in Horsens, we heard heart-rending speeches from our Malian, Nigerien and other Sahelian friends. We said to them, ‘But what else do you want us to do?’. They clamoured for a common security and defence policy (CSDP) mission which is being planned, which must take place, which is prepared but which ought to take place much more quickly so that the region can be stabilised by military means. I do not agree with military interventions, but the CSDP mission is absolutely essential, otherwise these countries will see themselves as the of Europe, those who were abandoned at the time of the Libyan intervention."@en1
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