But when India comes and tells us that tens of thousands of its nationals are languishing in a situation in which they lack foodstuffs, aad they tell us that they have a vessel that stands ready and loaded with foodstuffs to send to Kuwait, we then become involved in the moat complicated negotiations simply to authorize India to send one vessel to Kuwait to deliver foodstuffs to those individuals. It would involve no financial transaction to benefit Iraq, but it might help save some innocent persons vho have the right to live and who, titer al.& are foreign to the parties in conflict. I wr,nder whether it is really fair for us to be so paiaetaking with regard to the drama of people of the developed countries, the countries of the north, while we remain impassive before the clamour of hundreds of thousands of individuals whose names appear nowhere in the big newspapers, whose stotitis have not been disseminated, but who, in the view of our delegation, have precisely the same rights a8 those from the vealthier countries, or who obviously bear more useful passports. Of course, my delegation cannot say that the Security Council is acting in a discriminating fashion with regard to the various parties. We might have thought that one month later the Security Council would at least be in a positioa to deal with these problems and be responding to one or more of the cases of which we vere notified. But we find an even worse situation. A draft resolution has been put before us by which ve would in fact extend and reinforce the sanctions against Kuwait and Iraq to include foodstuffs. That means JSM/cw WPV.2939 33 (Mr. AWeon Waa. Cuba) our taking a tortuous path with regard to imperative needs and requests for food 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the issue of providing humanitarian aid, specifically foodstuffs, to individuals affected by the conflict in Kuwait and Iraq. The speaker argues that the Security Council is being discriminatory in its approach, favoring the needs of developed countries over those of developing countries. The text highlights the imperative need for food aid and the complexities of negotiating its delivery.

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief, International trade