Sentence examples for humanitarian visits from inspiring English sources

Carter has made previous humanitarian visits to the North in his role as a member of The Elders, an independent group of former world leaders that includes Desmond Tutu and Kofi Annan.

The White House cannot prevent Carter from travelling to the North, but is known to be wary of humanitarian visits being portrayed by Pyongyang as evidence of the US's diplomatic shortcomings.

All humanitarian visits have been scrapped.Mr Castro has been searching since the "battle of Elián" for another issue on which to rally Cubans and deflect international criticism away from his own refusal to allow dissent against his government or a free election.

He sat at the piano, playing minor-key majestic chords, and launched into a brand-new, still unrecorded song inspired by his humanitarian visits to hurricane-torn Haiti, "Standing in the Breach".

In the aftermath of Typhoon Morakot, the Dalai Lama was allowed to make a rare religious and humanitarian visit to Taiwan despite objections from China.

During an informal 90-minute conversation with French journalists covering her humanitarian visit to Mumbai, Trierweiler, said: "If François Hollande hadn't been President, perhaps we would have still been together".

Jörg Haider, the far-right politician, defended a three-day trip to Iraq where he met with President Saddam Hussein, saying that it was a humanitarian visit and that he had contributed equipment for a blood bank.

The pains the administration has taken to cast the Clinton mission as a private, humanitarian visit and the restrained manner in which it was conducted demonstrate an awareness of those risks.

PAGE 20 CARTER VISIT REFUSED President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe refused to allow a humanitarian visit to the country by former President Jimmy Carter Kofi Annann, the former secretary general of the United Nations; and Gra Machel, an advocate for women and the wife of Nelson Mandela.

Carter, who arrived yesterday on a private jet, accompanied by his wife, Rosalynn, is also expected to use the visit to engage in unofficial diplomacy with the regime, although the Obama administration has been quick to stress that he is on a private humanitarian visit.

Mr. Mugabe's decision to forbid a humanitarian visit by Mr. Carter, former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and Graça Machel, Nelson Mandela's wife, was a measure of the Zimbabwean leader's disdain for international opinion at a time when deepening hunger, raging hyperinflation and the collapse of health, sanitation and education services have crippled Zimbabwe.