7 Amendments of Maria BADIA i CUTCHET related to 2008/2097(INI)
Amendment 1 #
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1. Notes that climates of peace and stability are beneficial for development progress; notes that the absence of hostilities that marksle democratic environments are favourable to development progress; notes that post- conflict situations does not automatically lead to entrenched and lasting stability;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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2. Considers it vitally important that causes of instability only be tackled by development measurpolicies that are in accordancline with the Millennium Development Goals and other social and economico-economic, political and cultural measures aimed at eliminating poverty and fostering economic and, social and cultural development that can create thean environment requiredfavourable to preventing the resurgence of conflict; stresses, in this connection, the importance of education, especially for young people and women, in making a direct contribution to generating stability;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
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3. Notes that many African countries have the basic natural resources required for their development; highlights the need for the proper management and redistribution of these resources; deplores the implication of various (local, regional, int and the equitable redistribution of the wealth they genernational and trans-national) acte; deplores in the misappropriation and exploitation of these resources (e.g. diamonds in Angola and Sierra Leone and coltan in the Democratic Republic of Congo)of this wealth; draws attention to the need for transparency and legality in the extractive industries and welcomes initiatives such as the Kimberley process in avoiding major conflict potential in relation to the diamond market;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
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4. Deplores the fact that light arms accounthave been responsible for 9 out of 10 deaths in armed conflicts in Africa; considers that EU policy on controlling the export of weapons should be cleartransparent, effective and harmonised on the basis of the legally binding Code of Conduct;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
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5. Highlights the importance of transregional cooperation in areas that transcend political borders; calls on the Commission and the Council to adopt a regional approach to tackling the situation in a givenindividual countryies;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
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Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
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7. Points out that there should be no military component to development aid and that thedevelopment aid should always be in accordance with international law and in line with the United Nations; notes with interest the experience of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission; expresses its concern at the current approach adopted by donors who do not take local vtake little account of the concrete realitiews into account butof individual countries and work on the basis of Western models; considers that African solutions should be applied to African problems. that have little to do with local circumstances;