PARIS CONDEMNS "SPINELESS" NATIONS IN ZAIRE CONFLICT.

from Ben Macintyre

Bruxelles. The European Union appealed last night to the UN Security Council to give urgent authority to an international peacekeeping force in the Great Lakes region to open the way to EU relief to Rwandan refugees (Charles Bremner Writes).

Ministers from the 15 EU states agreed to give immediate backing to an international relief effort as soon as safe corridors were established by the force under discussion at the UN.

"The humanitarian operation can leave tomorrow morning", said Emma Bonino, the EU Commissioner for foreign aid. "We have plenty of food and medicine, transport and personnel in the area. We are ready but we are being barred from going in, "she said.