Speech #920122085

I would urge the Foreign Relations Committee to give the highest priority to the humanitarian programs that feed the starving. bring health care to the sick. and clothe the children of the world. The United Nations special programsUNICEFthe World Health Organization. the World Food program. the United Nations Development Fundthese must be funded. Second. at least $250 million in emergency relief to the refugees from East Pakistan must be provided along with continued support to other refugee programs through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. We cannot turn our backs on the 100 million refugees who are barely surviving in improvised camps strung along the IndiaPakistan border. Not only do we have a responsibility out of humanitarian concerns to ease their plight. but we also cannot ignore the fact that the weapons of the Pakistani military who drove them from their homes were largely United States supplied. Third. any interim foreign aid package must of course contain the essential authorization of military assistance to Israel.