Latest Answers http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/latest/597/%2A/%2A/%2A a view of answers sorted by date en Poe: “Myself and Congressman Delahunt from Massachusetts are the two congressional representatives to the UN. And the times we’ve been up there we have met with numerous people about Darfur. Trying to motivate people to do anything other than talk about it. Its been a tough struggle. But we keep the heat on as much as we can. And I just met with numerous ambassadors from other countries and UN officials. The UN mission statement would be first and foremost that we help the Darfurians. But nothing really substantial has occurred.” Reporter: “Why do you think that is?” Poe: “I don’t know why it hasn’t. I question the UN on many things, why they haven’t taken action on other issues around the world. Motivating the UN to do something is very difficult. They try to operate with a consensus, and that is almost impossible in our day and time to get the UN to have a consensus on any issue. But you’d think Darfur would be one, but unfortunately not much has occurred at all.” Reporter: “Do you think maybe this might be an instance where the US, with some other nations, should act outside of the UN?” Poe: “Well I think the African Coalition, should take the lead. It’s their continent. Backed up with the Europeans, and maybe the US as well, but we should all do this through the UN, and that is occurring. But we have to figure out something else to do to stop the genocide in Darfur, because people die everyday there and the world doesn’t pay much attention to it.” Reporter: “Do you see another option?” Poe: “Well, other than the UN, I think, like I said, I would hope the African countries would support the end to genocide on their continent, and the Europeans have historical ties to that country. So the two entities, with US support, we need to move forward. It’s been talked about enough over the last few years, but millions have died in the mean time.” http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/poe%3A-%E2%80%9Cmyself-and-congressman-delahunt-massachusetts-are-two-congressional-representatives-un Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:58:50 -0600 Whitney J 1815 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org