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Benin, Gambia call call for quicker response to African crises

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    International response to African conflicts needs to be speeded up, The Gambian president and the Beninese foreign secretary said in statements to the UN General Assembly this week.

    Both countries contrasted the timely international efforts to restore peace to Kosovo and East Timor with the slow or sometimes lack of response to African conflicts.

    "We insist that one life in Angola or elsewhere in Africa is no less important than one life in Kosovo or East Timor," Yahya Jammeh, president of The Gambia, said."The Security Council must, therefore, be even-handed and establish principled criteria for humanitarian intervention."

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