The Minister will be aware that the non-governmental organisations are clear in their message: not only in Zaire but in Uganda and Tanzania, there is a need for significant extra help to deal with what is not simply the immediate Crisis of Refugees fleeing from Rwanda but what is likely to be the long and medium-term duty to look after them - certainly in the indefinite future.

Was my noble friend not struck by the fact that the appallingly difficult problem we face, raised by the noble Baroness, makes it extremely difficult to see at present how anything except a political solution can possibly resolve what is becoming a galloping Crisis of Refugees as the situation goes from bad to worse?

There is the real and growing prospect now of a new European progressive coalition emerging that is willing to seize the agenda of the EU to end austerity, secure employment growth, tackle tax evasion and avoidance, confront climate change and of course co-operate to deal with the tragic humanitarian Crisis of the Refugees.