Bush envoy argues for accountability
Providing humanitarian aid to dictatorships is acceptable only if those regimes remedy their human rights practices, President Bush’s special envoy on human rights to North Korea said at a Yale Political Union debate Tuesday night.
In an address to about 200 students in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Jay Lefkowitz discussed current U.S. aid programs to North Korea, arguing that dictatorships should be given foreign aid only if they are held accountable for their decisions about how to spend the aid.
While some students interviewed said they found Lefkowitz’s assertions...
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