My last point, of course, is asking for a review of Canadian foreign policy, because I believe that the policy right now, although very good in certain areas, like in Sierra Leone and now in Sudan with new initiatives, is too country- and project-focused.

My comments today will reflect CARE Canada's ongoing efforts, over the last six years, to address the very difficult policy decisions that have been created in the work of the humanitarian disasters such as we've seen in Somalia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and of course Kosovo.

38. Calls on the Sahel countries to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) so as to enable it to conduct investigations freely and with complete impartiality; calls on states parties to execute international arrest warrants issued by the ICC and to enforce its decisions with all due swiftness; proposes that the UN should help the Sahel countries to set up impartial and independent judicial bodies to try perpetrators of international crimes, following the example of the Special Court for Sierra Leone; notes that Mauritania is the only Sahel country – and one of the very few Afric ...[+++]an countries – not to have acceded to the Rome Statute of the ICC; encourages it to do so, as a strong signal of rejecting the culture of impunity; emphasises, in this connection, the importance of developing an EU policy on transitional justice as specified in the EU Action Plan on Human Rights;

38. Calls on the Sahel countries to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) so as to enable it to conduct investigations freely and with complete impartiality; calls on states parties to execute international arrest warrants issued by the ICC and to enforce its decisions with all due swiftness; proposes that the UN should help the Sahel countries to set up impartial and independent judicial bodies to try perpetrators of international crimes, following the example of the Special Court for Sierra Leone; notes that Mauritania is the only Sahel country – and one of the very few Afric ...[+++]an countries – not to have acceded to the Rome Statute of the ICC; encourages it to do so, as a strong signal of rejecting the culture of impunity; emphasises, in this connection, the importance of developing an EU policy on transitional justice as specified in the EU Action Plan on Human Rights;