Europe has been and continues to be a bastion of human rights. It is also one of the largest donors of overseas development aid in the Third World. I realise that the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Tom Kitt, has responsibility in that area and will, no doubt, refer to it. We should keep in mind this carefully constructed alliance within the European family that not only helps to enhance and improve the prosperity of its members, but also has been and is reaching out to the former colonies of the Soviet Union, the emerging democracies waiting to join.