Word: kouchner
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Some of the kids' short, traumatized biographies supported an underlying premise-a motif that the older speakers elaborated upon a bit too automatically. Bernard Kouchner, the French doctor who co-founded Madecins Sans Frontieres and Madecins du Monde, stated the theme when he spoke about Bosnia: Today there are 37 wars going on in the world. The adults have failed, he said. Youth must succeed...
...would have sealed his claim as the "natural candidate." But they were humiliated with only 14.5% of the vote, their worst showing in 25 years, throwing the race for the party's nomination wide open. Possible wild cards include former Culture Minister Jack Lang and former Health Minister Bernard Kouchner...
Bosnia has come to this sorry pass because of "an absence of European political courage," says France's Bernard Kouchner, a former Minister for Health and Humanitarian Action. "In the heart of Europe we have let Bosnian Muslims die. We will be reproached eternally for that...
...track record is not encouraging. Notes Francois Dumaine, a logistics expert for the French volunteer medical team Medecins sans Frontieres: "It takes the U.N. a month and sometimes longer to organize rescue operations." Adds Serge Telle, a technical adviser to France's Secretary of State for Humanitarian Affairs, Bernard Kouchner: "The U.N. relief agencies are plagued with chronic financial difficulties because of the West's indifference. On the one hand, we say everything has to go through the U.N.; on the other, we settle everything at the bilateral level...
French President Francois Mitterrand dispatched his Secretary of State for Humanitarian Action, Bernard Kouchner, to northern Iraq to distribute two planeloads of relief supplies. Asked what would happen if Baghdad objected to Kouchner's dropping in uninvited, Foreign Minister Roland Dumas replied, * "Although one must abide by international obligations, sometimes it is necessary to violate international...