Unfortunately, the Security Council, which under the charter had the prime responsibility for maintaining peace and security, is becoming very dysfunctional because of the great power disputes and the exercise of the veto. As a result, a lot of conflict situations are simply bypassed or subject to kind of a rhetorical flourish of another resolution or a statement of goodwill, but not a concrete action.
Let me give you an indication of a news report that came out this week about the Central African Republic. Who reads reports on Central African Republic? Well, some of us do.
It was a story about how one of the armed groups.... There's a civil war going on, and there's a UN presence, but the UN security presence is limited, so as a result one of the warring groups went into the capital city and attacked people in a displaced persons camp. Some 20,000 people were under attack, with hundreds of fatalities and injuries.
Now, why aren't we geared up to respond to that? It goes back to, I think, what one of the previous interlocutors said: Dealing with refugees is more than a humanitarian issue and is very much a political issue. It's very much a security issue. That's where I think we have to broaden the discussion and the examination of what needs to be done to bring the objectives—the goals of the compact—forward for implementation.