Bruce Baird (Cook, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House calls on the United Nations to:

(1)

substantially increase the level of aid to the Darfur region of the Sudan;

(2)

call upon member nations to provide peacekeeping forces to quell the civil war currently taking place in the country;

(3)

lift the profile of this catastrophic situation that confronts Darfur and the conflict which has already claimed 300,000 lives and seen 2.4 million people displaced;

(4)

work effectively with the NGO’s to ensure a substantial lift in the level of privately sourced aid going to the region; and

(5)

ensure that maximum cooperation is given to peace negotiations.

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