Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-10-05-Speech-2-182"
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Yes, but you are not getting one. My answer was not of a bureaucratic nature. There is just as much humanitarian concern in focusing on the victims of the conflict, irrespective of the character of the conflict. When we are confronted with suffering of this nature and with victims in the numbers we are seeing here, there are obviously factors on both sides of the conflict which may be characterised in the way the questioner has just done. Otherwise, the victims would not be in the position they are in fact in. And our mandate in connection with what Echo is doing in the field is a humanitarian mandate. I ask that this fact be respected. I am fully conscious of the fact that it is not always possible to be completely unpartisan, and one can always be taken advantage of by one or the other side in a conflict when one helps the victims. However, there is no value in representing the issue as the questioner has done. It is difficult enough as it is to be of use in providing humanitarian aid."@en1
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