Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
As eastern Zaire faces an unprecedented human disaster, there are rumours of Tutsi rebels having announced today a three-week unilateral ceasefire to allow those refugees who wish to flee to Rwanda to do so. However, emergency humanitarian relief still cannot get through. A dramatic plea has been made for the creation of humanitarian corridors to prevent thousands if not hundreds of thousands of persons from being killed.
Could the minister give us an update on the situation in eastern Zaire, where there are more than one million civilians affected by the fighting, and on the steps taken so far to establish corridors so that humanitarian relief can reach the refugees?