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"As we pointed out previously, we cannot support the ‘consensus’ on the EU's principles, objectives and strategies for the delivery of humanitarian aid in third countries, which requires us to promote so-called ‘humanitarian’ intervention as a ‘right’ or indeed a ‘duty’, and to use ‘coercive measures, including military intervention’, as a ‘last resort’, calling into question basic principles of international law.
Unfortunately, the consequences of such a policy are very visible (despite being concealed and omitted). The policy camouflages inadmissible objectives and interests under a cloak of ‘good intentions’, as if the constant denunciation of the military aggression and occupation of Iraq by the United States and its allies were not enough, with the hundreds of thousands of deaths that have resulted, and the pillaging of the country's enormous natural resources.
‘Humanitarian intervention’ is an instrument that the major powers use to justify their intervention in situations they have so often fuelled and aggravated by years of interference in pursuit of their strategic interests and in support of the unscrupulous manoeuvres of the multinationals.
Solving the serious problems affecting millions of human beings requires respect for national sovereignty, the peaceful resolution of international conflicts and satisfaction of the urgent needs of the economically poorest countries."@en1
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