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"On behalf of the New Italian Socialist Party, I thank Mrs Martens for her work and the UK Presidency for its willingness to increase the EU’s commitment towards Africa. I fully support the request to provide this strategy with adequate instruments and resources together with precise deadlines in order to be able to assess its progress. I also agree that it is a priority to coordinate the policies of the various Member States so as to prevent actions from being duplicated. It is important, however, that the EU finally assumes its due role at international level as a leader in the fight against poverty. Africa, the region which concentrates the highest number of people living below the poverty line, the worst kinds of transmissible diseases, infant and maternal mortality and a lack of education and health structures, represents the principal challenge to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Europe’s cooperation actions therefore need to be supported by a firm policy of international diplomacy that consistently promotes suitable economic and social policies within international organisations, primarily the UN, the IMF and the WTO. This policy should also promote dialogue with all the recipient countries so that these countries can eventually play an active role in establishing their own strategies and in managing the programmes, with the full participation of civil society as a whole."@en1
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