Foreign Affairs committee  May I make a last statement?

Foreign Affairs committee  I recognize the importance of members of Parliament. I used to be a minister, and ministers have no power. Ministers depend on MPs because MPs appropriate resources. MPs are the ones who look at a project and decide what goes where. They also have oversight on resources that are

Foreign Affairs committee  We have to take the issues of climate change, SDGs, and financial development together because they all go together. Climate change is a major disaster that's ongoing. When you look at it in terms of what it means for women and girls, it is a great disaster. I come from a part

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, but I think it's important because the three parts of the health system are important: the human resources, the supply chain management system, and the provision of a social protection floor. Those are the three things you require to maintain a health system, and of course,

Foreign Affairs committee  No.

Foreign Affairs committee  China's one-child policy is the national policy of China. We were not part of that policy. That's their policy.

Foreign Affairs committee  No. We never provided.... The UN Population Fund worked in districts in China to try to persuade China to relax the one-child policy so that they could allow women to make choices in family planning.

Foreign Affairs committee  You are talking of gathering information. That's very different from a policy that actually coerced people. That's a different thing. We work in China. We have to work in China. China has the largest population in the world, so we are there, but we are not part of the one-child

Foreign Affairs committee  China's family planning—

Foreign Affairs committee  No, not that I know of.

Foreign Affairs committee  In areas that we worked we had no coercion.

Foreign Affairs committee  When countries decide to put national programs in place, it is not our place. We can advise them. They decide to do what they have to do. There are many countries where we have been able to change policies. As you've seen, China itself has decided to change its policy. This is p

Foreign Affairs committee  We did not give seed money to the one-child policy program.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. The information gathering program is a different thing. If you don't have information, how do you then take positions?

Foreign Affairs committee  No, we are not an association—