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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7977

6 June 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 28 / 53
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/development
Council prepares ground for making conflict prevention more operational in development aid - Donors' meeting with view to creating a fund for medicines to combat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis

Brussels, 05/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - By providing more than 55% of public development aid, the European Union is the leading aid donor in the world, but it must improve its aid efficiency by targeting it more on eradicating poverty, and simplifying decision-making procedures to implement the new Union development policy defined in November, said Council President Maj-Inger Klingvall, adding "we are on the right road". She was commenting on work covered by the last Development Council (see...

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