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Irrespective of our support for various aspects of humanitarian aid which are stressed in the report, we cannot endorse a ‘consensus’ on the EU's principles, objectives and strategies for the delivery of humanitarian aid in third countries that calls for the promotion of ‘the right, or indeed the duty, of intervention in cases of serious violation of IHL and/or human rights’, considering that ‘coercive measures, including military intervention, may only be used as ‘a last resort’. We know the results of such a policy of ‘good intentions’, i.e. the aggression and military occupation of Iraq by the USA and its allies and the resulting hundreds of thousands of deaths.
As has been said, so-called ‘humanitarian intervention’ very often conceals other real objectives that use and manipulate it according to the interests and unscrupulous calculations of the major powers and multinationals, calling the basic principles of international law into question.
We believe that the resolution of the serious problems affecting millions of human beings involves, among other things, respect for the sovereignty of all peoples and countries, the peaceful resolution of international conflicts, meeting the urgent needs of the economically poorest countries on a basis of friendship and solidarity, and their effective development."@en1
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