Article 7 Asia

Community assistance to Asia shall support actions consistent with Article 5 and with the overall purpose and scope, objectives and general principles of this Regulation. Additional attention shall be paid to the following areas of cooperation, reflecting the specific situation in Asia:

1. (a)

   pursuing MDGs in the field of health, including HIV/AIDS, and education, inter alia, through policy dialogue for sectoral reform;

2. (b)

   addressing governance issues in particular in fragile States so as to help build legitimate, effective and resilient public institutions and an active and organised civil society, and to enhance the protection of human rights, including the rights of the child;

3. (c)

   encouraging greater regional integration and cooperation through support to different processes of regional integration and dialogue;

4. (d)

   contributing to the control of epidemics and zoonoses as well as to the rehabilitation of the affected sectors;

5. (e)

   promoting sustainable development in all its dimensions, with particular attention to the protection of forests and biodiversity;

6. (f)

   fighting against production, consumption and trafficking of drugs and against other trafficking.