Übersetzung für "Hilfszusagen" in Englisch

We need to respect our aid commitments of 0.7% of GNI by 2015 at the latest.

We have to ask ourselves what Europe’s promises of aid in the aftermath of such calamities are worth.

Bill also emphasized the many other countries that are also meeting their aid commitments.

This is why we stand by our pledges of assistance on the basis of the agreements made.

I would like to express my solidarity with the people of Haiti affected by the earthquake that hit the country on 12 January, and I welcome the aid commitments made by the EU.

I therefore welcome the EU's offer of substantial aid for the period 1999-2003 at the donors' conference in Washington and most recently under the German Presidency in Frankfurt.

Instead of allowing our European aid pledges to drift towards being mere intentions, then vague aspirations, and, eventually, tragically quiet betrayals, we should instead redouble our efforts to make sure that ours is the generation that finally does make poverty history.

I do have to say that this is not much to ask in return for the substantial aid which the European Union has already pledged.

In Sri Lanka alone, institutional and public commitments came to about EUR 5.8 billion.

In relation to her other specific question, whether Member States are already starting to roll back on their aid volume commitments, I would categorically say no.

Though, to be honest, one-third of that grant aid is reprogrammed from existing development aid for the region.

Consequently, the readiness to help shown by everyone, and in our particular case by the EU as a whole and by each of the 25 Member States, is worthy of praise, but only if the promises of help correspond to effective help.

Looking at the figures, we see that the G8 is way off track on aid to the developing world and, amongst those, EU countries are some of the worst performers.

This is some of the most exciting stuff in development and democracy, where citizens on the edge of a network are helping to force open the process to make sure that the big global aid promises and vague stuff up at the top really delivers for people at a grassroots level and inverts that pyramid.

The international community should by the same token be encouraged to continue to respond positively through additional commitments where the combination of strong national leadership and an empowered United Nations country team, delivering as one, together generate a better-aligned and more effective United Nations programme of support.

Although the state did not follow through on its promises, the Seminole were not interested in fighting another war.

Support from around the world is fitful: only 60% of aid pledges have come in, with only a fraction actually reaching the intended beneficiaries.

A distinct improvement in governance, particularly as regards aid traceability and more explicit conditionality for payments, is vital in all the EU's commitments and at multilateral level.

These voluntary assistance pledges include different types of individual protective equipment, detection and decontamination equipment and units, humanitarian equipment, literature, and expert advice.

The European Union and its Member States have been leading partners in this stabilisation process, pledging over 3 billion Euro in aid from 2002-2006 and making significant contributions to Afghanistan's security and development.

When aid is granted attention must also be paid to ensuring that (a) civil rights are respected in the beneficiary state in accordance with international practice, and (b) that minorities are afforded a status which reflects the need for political and social stability and "good neighbourly relations".

In that context, the EU needs to increase its support and participation for international initiatives aimed at addressing global migration and refugee challenges, such as UNHCR's global resettlement programmes,30 but also press for increased pledging in other international contexts such as the G20.

Ministers stressed that substantial pledges of assistance should be mobilised, and above all that life in Gaza should be brought back to normal as quickly as possible.

For Bulgaria, total pledges for assistance to fill a financing gap of US$ 800 million fell short by some US$ 200 million.

President Barroso nevertheless reminded G8 leaders and all EU Member States - of the aid commitments made in 2005.

The EU calls on all donors to promptly deliver on their pledges, according to the principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence.

How else can it be explained that - as the European Court of Auditors points out in its report for the 1992 budget year - at the beginning of 1993, in other words nearly four years after the decision of the Paris summit to entrust to the Commission the coordination of the actions and the establishment of a framework for aid commitments, the Commission still has no clear plan for the administration and use of these considerable counterpart funds in Central and Eastern Europe22.

How else can it be explained that - as the European Court of Auditors points out in its report for the 1992 budget year - at the beginning of 1993, in other words nearly four years after the decision of the Paris summit to entrust to the Commission the coordination of the actions and the establishment of a framework for aid commitments, the Commission still has no clear plan for the administration and use of these considerable counterpart funds in Central and Eastern Europe22.