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Chilean Vice Foreign Minister Cristian Barros said on Wednesday that his country would promote the work of the United Nations Security Council on humanitarian assistance in Iraq.
In an address to the Chilean Congress, Barros indicated that Chile would play an active role in the United Nations, explaining that "Our mission in the United Nations is to try to provide humanitarian relief in the catastrophe of Iraq, although of little help."
He urged the Security Council "adopt every necessary measure to end the war in Iraq as soon as possible."
Chile and Mexico, the only two Latin American non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, insist on a peaceful solution to the Iraqi crisis.
Barros said the Chilean government would concern itself with the deployment of peace-keeping forces and the lives of civilians in order to help Iraqi people weather the war.
Socialist Senator Ricardo Nunez, the president of the foreign affairs commission of the Upper House, expressed the same idea for the Chilean role in UN humanitarian assistance in Iraq.
"It is possible that humanitarian assistance through sanitary organizations or relevant ones will make progress," Nunez said.
(Xinhua News Agency March 27, 2003)
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