Where is the humanitarian Europe?

Rome, 01.01.2000.

Statement by Emma Bonino

"I think that the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid should have find the time to go, with the EU banner, to Grozny. Too many declarations have been issued on Chechnya, but too little has been done so far. At least, some simple deeds could have been tempted from the EU to respond to the crisis, but the Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, perhaps having realized that a political Europe does not exist, has decided that also a humanitarian Europe was no longer possible. European Commissioners are linked to the Geneva Conventions, which bind the states party to the obligations foreseen in the treaties, and, in cases of patent violations of the provisions, European officials should denounce them. I strongly deplore the fact that, waiting for the creation of a political Europe, Mr. Poul Nielson has decided that also the humanitarian Europe - which was well alive - should disappear as it has already done in Chechnya and East Timor.

From a press release of the Transnational Radical Party.