BRUSSELS, Nov 7 (Reuter) - European Union development aid ministers met on Thursday to try to agree an aid package for some 1.2 million refugees in eastern Zaire amid mounting criticism of an inadequate world response to the crisis. EU aid chief Emma Bonino is expected to push for the opening of safe corridors into the region to aid food deliveries and the return of refugees caught by the fighting between Tutsi rebels and the Zairean army. Diplomats said Bonino would also push for some form of military protection for the corridors, an issue which has paralysed a world reluctant of involvement in another African crisis. "My feeling is that it is not time any longer for political reports, a strong call has to come from this meeting," Bonino told Reuters as she arrived for the meeting. The 15-nation EU has offered to help create and finance an African force, but seven regional leaders meeting in Nairobi on Tuesday said they wanted the United Nations to create a "neutral force" to come to the rescue of the r

efugees. France and Spain have offered troops but the rest of the world has remained silent. Aldo Ajello, the EU's special envoy to the Great Lakes region, said the Nairobi conference had helped crystallise the debate. "Now, we have to see which countries are ready to send troops."