HLP Quotes/Speeches/Summaries


Closing Ceremony - Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Speech - 15/11/2008
Opening Ceremony - Amadou Toumani Touré, President of Mali Speech - 15/11/2008
Opening speech - Alain JOYANDET Speech - 15/11/2008 Troisième édition des Journées Européennes du Développement Discours d’ouverture Alain JOYANDET Secrétaire d’Etat chargé de la Coopération et la francophonie
Morgan Tsvangirai, President of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Zimbabwe Quote - 15/11/2008 “Every day that passes, we are losing an opportunity to drive this country away from chaos.”
Philippe Mathieu, Oxfam, Haiti Quote - 15/11/2008 “Every time food aid is granted, it is an opportunity to stimulate local production. We also have to try to create jobs that allow people to feed themselves on a lasting basis.”
Message from Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations Quote - 15/11/2008 “I welcome the decision to focus this year’s European Development Days on local authorities. Local authorities are well placed to translate broad development aspirations into speciﬁc, concrete meaningful action in the daily lives of their constituents. They can also serve as a bridge between the global and the local.”
Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank Quote - 15/11/2008 “It is important to understand that the crisis the world is not simply a ﬁnancial crisis. It is an economic crisis, as well as crises in food, water, migration, security and resources. We have a multi-polar crisis that cannot be resolved until all stakeholders are around the table.”
Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Quote - 15/11/2008 “It is indecent to use the ﬁnancial crisis, with its effects on the European economy, to make less of an effort or to decrease our development aid. It is exactly the opposite which needs to be done.”
Angélique Kidjo, Grammy Award-winning singer and poverty activist Quote - 15/11/2008 “It is necessary to work with people on the ground. It is the only way to make things happen and evolve. A lot of things are done for Africa, but without including the Africans. We have to ﬁnd a way to get the message of what we are trying to do to the people in rural zones because it is they who we are speaking about when we speak about development.”
Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Quote - 15/11/2008 “There is a risk that the ﬁnancial crisis will be used as a pretext to reduce public development aid and to add another indecent injustice to a profound injustice.”