Projet de loi portant assentiment à la Convention relative à l'aide alimentaire de 1999, et aux Annexes, faites à Londres le 13 avril 1999.
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- Submitted by
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The Senate
- Submission date
- March 14, 2001
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- Status
- Adopted
- Requirement
- Simple
- Subjects
- aid policy international agreement development aid food aid
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Discussion ¶
June 14, 2001 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)
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Rapporteur Leen Laenens ⚙
This is a short, but not insignificant report.
Mrs Claudine Drion made a comment on behalf of the Agalev-Ecolo group regreting that the international community does nothing but conclude a number of conventions on food aid. The UN Conference of the Least Developed Countries was held here in Brussels. It has once again demonstrated that developing countries need more and, above all, different measures to ensure effective food security and to effectively combat and overcome poverty. It calls attention to the provisions of Article 13 of the Convention, which state that food aid must meet a number of conditions in order to represent a real development opportunity. In particular, it requests Belgium to assess the impact of its food aid programmes, as also requested in point (j) of that Article. Finally, she emphasizes that the achievements of the Belgian Survival Fund clearly indicate that other approaches are possible to ⁇ food security. Their
With this note, the agreement was unanimously approved.