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"Madam President, I would like to congratulate Filip Kaczmarek for his excellent work and the momentum that he has generated for this report. I would also like to thank the Commissioner for his leadership on this issue and for its ambitious communication.
The hard work will now be with the Council, and it is important that we have a single voice from the EU when it comes to issues such as the MDGs, not 27 separate voices plus one – a single voice from the EU institutions. Many of the stories coming out of Africa, Asia and Latin America today are of progress and success. The MDGs are a part of this success, and that needs to be stressed, repeated and communicated.
The MDG framework was adopted in a very different time, in the late 1990s when the world was very different. Most people lived in rural areas and in poor countries. Climate change was a far-off concern and far from being a mainstream political issue as it is today. There was more optimism about economic growth and what it could deliver. This is not the case anymore. We need to learn the right lessons from the past and have the right analysis for the future if we want the MDGs to be both politically acceptable and decisive in reducing poverty.
There must be shared responsibility and universal application of the future framework. It should apply to all countries. We need to make sure that we, in our developed countries, meet the targets and goals, for example, on transparency, good governance, and fighting corruption and the tax evasion that we see being practised by multinationals. There should be a limited number of goals with different targets for each country.
Health MDGs are lagging behind but they must remain a priority, and we must include sexual and reproductive health rights, which are a distinct component of health, and indeed at its root. I am sorry that sections of the PPE and the ECR Groups still fail to see this and that they will vote against the whole report should the text include these rights, thus dismissing the great work done by Filip Kaczmarek. I know the Commission is under attack for its work on this issue, but it has the support of the European Parliament and EU citizens.
Finally, we need fully to integrate the equality dimension – equality between countries and also within countries. Let us forget the tyranny of averages that is undermining the success of the MDGs. This means equality of revenue, including between women and men, and also equality of access to health, education, social protection and other social services, and human rights equality – including equality irrespective of sexual orientation, and fully respecting women’s rights."@en1
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