Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-02-02-Speech-3-121"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-02-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Exceptional financial aid to Kosovo2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000202.9.3-121"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-02-02-Speech-3-1222
lpv:speaker	lp:Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (1999-11-18--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (1999-07-20--2000-10-17)3 member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to offer a few explanations. In a debate, there is always the danger that we will repeat much of what has already been said. However, I would like to concentrate on two points. Firstly, I would like to make it very clear that the Union is the main contributor to aid for the reconstruction of Kosovo. I would like to point out to Mrs Albright that what we have read recently in the press is true, and that figures do not lie. Let us make this clear, however much some people may not wish to believe it. The Union has decided to assist with a further EUR 35 million in additional macrofinancial aid for the reconstruction of Kosovo, on the basis of an IMF report which estimates that a further EUR 115 million is needed for that reconstruction. I would like to say to Mrs Pack that I am in complete agreement with her when she says that the Commission should insist that other contributors fulfil their commitments. I would also like to express my concern – which is very considerable – at the statement by some Ministers at the last Ecofin that says that it should be a priority of the Portuguese Presidency not to alter, in any circumstances, the financial perspectives agreed in Berlin. This calls into question the agreement which Parliament reached, with great difficulty, with the Council in December, according to which, when the Commission presents a multiannual programme for reconstruction, the financial perspectives would be reviewed where necessary. I would like to appeal to those Ministers not to cast doubt upon that agreement which was really very difficult to reach. I would like to ask the Commission – and I am glad that Commissioner Solbes is here with us this evening – to present us in time with this multiannual finance programme, with the corresponding report, requested by Parliament, so that it may be taken into account when the preliminary draft of the next budget is drawn up, as we have been promised. Lastly, I would like to insist that, although we have agreed to EUR 35 million now, we know that this is a stopgap solution and that it is not enough, and we should therefore reach an agreement as soon as possible on the multiannual reconstruction programme for Kosovo, which is so badly needed."@en1

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