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                     Category: News
                     Date of Article: 07/13/99
                     Topic: Chiluba Decries UN Assistance to African
Refugees
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                     Full Text of Article:
                     NAMBIAN President, Frederick Chiluba, on Sunday said
the amount of money spent on an African refugee per day compared to that
                     granted to refugees in Europe - Kosovo in particular -
was insulting.
                     Speaking at a news conference hours after the signing
of the peace pact by the six countries, minus the rebels, involved in the
war in the
                     Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Chiluba said
the UN was very unfair on Africans.
                     "I have only one problem with the UN and I want to
state here clearly that the amount of money they spend on refugees in Africa
is
                     insulting ... they spend about 11 (U.S.) cents per
refugee per day, they spend 1.50 dollars per refugee per day in Kosovo. This
is grossly
                     unfair," Chiluba added.
                     He said it was useless to talk about democracy when the
minds of people were not democratically adjusted to take every member of the
                     UN community as equal.
                     "We may not be materially contributing enough to the UN
but the UN is not only about money. The (UN) charter of human rights does
                     not discuss money, it discusses human life and so our
European and American friends must not give so much to refugees in Kosovo,"
he
                     also said.
                     He added that while refugees were refugees everywhere,
those in Africa had more problems than their European counterparts.
                     Chiluba, who described the situation as the worst kind
of discrimination added that the West could not talk about democracy or
                     civilization when they lacked the basic tenet of
civilization - treating human begins equally.
                     He stated that most countries of the world were members
of the UN and the world body had the right to find resources for its members
                     in time of need.



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