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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9551

27 November 2007
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/acp
ACPs must allocate 15% of their expenditure to health and EU 20% of its aid to health and education, Joint Assembly stresses

Brussels, 26/11/2007 (Agence Europe) - It is absolutely vital that the ACP states allocate 50% of their annual expenditure to health, particularly to the fight against neglected diseases affecting more than a billion people in the world, as they pledged to do in 2001. For its part, the EU must respect its objective to mobilise 20% of its development aid for health and education in these countries. The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly made this request in a resolution adopted on 22...

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