Suggestion for a Rapid International Humanitarian Response Force.

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Saturday January 01, 2005 11:09 by -

"all together now"

Aid pledges to SE Asia have now topped a billion dollars, but for many the assistance will have come too late.

President Chirac of France has suggested the setting up of an international mechanisms to alert to natural dangers which are equitable and efficacious for rich and poor regions of the planet alike.

and the creation of a true humanitarian rapid response force.

He is not just speaking on behalf of the French government, or his political party, he's speaking on behalf of Europe and North and South America.

We'd all like to see (wouldn't we?) a world where when such disasters occur, it doesn't take almost a week to get food, experts, aid and so on to those who need it. A world where the machines of state which can carry war and destruction at immediate notice are used to carry aid, food, medicine and help instead.

«Nous formons une seule et même humanité dont le destin ne se distingue pas de celui de notre planète»,

"we form one and the same humanity where destiny does not distinguish one from the planet".

He has also expressed his support that Europe stand at the front line in the fight against Global pollution and take the lead in the now very neccesary work of cleaning up the planet who's ecosystem has been intolerably contaminated through the ignorance and bad science accompanied by foolish financial speculation or centralised disregard for environmental cost of little more than a hundred years.

These two directions are good ones to take in
2005 = MMV