Mr. Jim Clarken:

What is important now is that we ensure that anybody who flees is protected, and there is an international responsibility on the Government of Rwanda and on the Government of the Congo. We talk about other actors such as the UN and so on but there is a democratically elected Government in the Congo which has responsibilities also. Its military has responsibilities. We must put pressure on them and we can do that from outside and from international fora to ensure that people are protected and that we move beyond this constant cycle of crisis upon crisis which sees people attempting to rebuild some semblance of a life while in a camp only to have to move from there to the next place.

It is going to require a concerted effort. In other parts of the world when one ignores a crisis in a country, as happened in Somalia, things just get worse until one gets to a shocking situation where we had a famine there last year. As an international community we cannot do that. We must continue to focus, to put pressure where it is needed and keep this effort going. Right now, we have a big job to do to keep people alive. I urge members to make sure that we put pressure in the right places to support that kind of work.