Final Day Brief April 19, 2007
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The World Conference on Humanitarian Intervention will convene one final time tomorrow and hopefully sign a resolution determining the guidelines for humanitarian intervention and the steps that should be taken by the UN in times of genocide. One issue they need to resolve is troops: who contributes forces, and how do we determine how many?
The idea behind the humanitarian aid counsel we are developing is to set a standard for the type and extent of aid a country needs. We have already stated that military force is necessary in certain situations. Being that the UN doesn’t have a large military group, military aid rests on the shoulders of individual countries. So even if we decide the specific instances when military aid is necessary, its not guaranteed that individual countries will back this advice up. It is necessary for the UN to have an army in order to provide military aid when other countries are unwilling. So I second Kris’s motion to develop a UN military.
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David Rieff