‘EU won’t fight over gays'

[Skeng DX]

BRUSSELS, Belgium:
The European Union says it has no plans to copy the United States in tying the disbursement of aid to countries which promote gay rights.

According to John Caloghirou, the head of the Caribbean Division of the European Union, the EU remains concerned about human rights issues in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.

But he says tying the disbursement of European aid to the promotion of gay rights would be confrontational.

“I don’t think that it is something to be considered,” he told a group of Jamaican journalists on a training course in Brussels.

In December last year United States President Barack Obama announced that the US would use diplomatic tools including foreign aid, to promote gay rights around the world.

But the EU Caribbean boss does not foresee that level of “confrontation” as a necessary action.

“In general in the Caribbean, democracy, human rights [and] the rule of law are generally respected, and where we do have differences we use political dialogue to exchange our views and transmit our differences and we listen to the other side,” he said.

At the same time, Caloghirou says the EU is encouraged by the declaration by Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller that the Parliament would have a conscience vote on whether to keep the buggery law.

[Sir X]

Of course , the middle east and Africa is at their door steps , dem nuh waan di taliban within kick off more dan dem use to...over to you Ben ..lol

[Muadib]

Over to me ??? Jamaica in di Miggle East or Africa ?

Where Peter Phillips seh him ah guh fi find money ?

[Sir X]

Resistance is futile , Europe,China, Brazil ,India and ....Cuba a defend wi..lol wid wi development.

[Jangle]

Lol

[Muadib]

Aid from China, Brazil and India ??

Which aid dat ?

lol !

Look like unnuh confuse..

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USAID:
The request under the FY2009 Foreign Operations budget, Foreign Operations and Related Agencies was:
$2.4 billion to improve responsiveness to humanitarian crises, including food emergencies and disasters, and the needs of refugees
$938 million to strengthen USAID’s operational capacity
$2.3 billion to help Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and West Bank/Gaza achieve economic, democratic, security and political stabilization and to advance their overall development
$2.1 billion for State Department and USAID programs in Africa to address non-HIV/AIDS health, economic growth and democratic governance needs and to help promote stability in Sudan, Liberia, Zimbabwe and Somalia in support of the President's 2005 commitment to double aid to Africa by 2010
$4.8 billion for the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative, which directly supports the first year of the President’s new five-year, $30 billion plan to treat 2.5 million people, prevent 12 million new infections, and care for 12 million afflicted people
$550 million to support the Mérida Initiative to combat the threats of drug trafficking, transnational crime, and terrorism in Mexico and Central America
$1.7 billion to promote democracy around the world, including support for the President’s Freedom Agenda
$385 million to support the President’s Malaria Initiative to reduce malaria-related deaths by 50 percent in 15 target African countries by 2010
$94 million for the President’s International Education Initiative to provide an additional 4 million students with access to quality basic education through 2012
$64 million for the State Department and USAID to support the President's Climate Change Initiative to promote the adoption of clean energy technology, help countries adapt to climate change, and encourage sustainable forest management
$4.8 billion for foreign military financing to the Middle East, Latin America, Europe and Eurasia, including $2.6 billion for Israel
$2.2 billion for the Millennium Challenge Corporation to improve agricultural productivity, modernize infrastructure, expand private land ownership, improve health systems, and improve access to credit for small business and farmers

Dead and unnuh don't even know it.. gwaan seek comfort in EU man diplomatic talk..

lol ! woiiee !

[Sir X]

How can I say this gently, it just wont happen,Gay rights is a western thing.It started there it will stay there.