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"Mr President, one of the principles that the Commissioner mentioned as underpinning this strategy for Africa was its combination of equality and partnership – the latter defined to mean that both the continent of Europe, the European Union and also our African partners believe in the multilateral order and work to establish it.
Where the last colony in Africa, the Western Sahara, is concerned, I believe that we – by which I mean not only the European Union as an institution, but also the Member States – are not making a good job of it. I am often asked why the European Union, through association agreements, puts a lot of money into a country that has, for almost exactly thirty years, been occupied by another in contravention of every international law.
Population growth is another issue. It is clear that no discussion of a development strategy for Africa is possible without consideration of the problem of population growth and the reproductive rights of the people who live there. There is nothing new about the insight that slower population growth has a positive effect on a country’s development and helps to reduce poverty.
When considering this strategy for Africa, there are two things to which we must give a great deal of attention: one is the fact that the generation of young people we are dealing with is the most numerous that human history has ever seen, and the other is the spreading pandemic of HIV/Aids."@en1
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