"[Our] focus should be on ensuring that forced migration is for a temporary period only… [The] international community must take action to resolve conflicts, and human rights abuse and commit to post conflict reconstruction to enable sustainable return. There is no international law permitting such intervention and it is still highly controversial. Nevertheless, refugee flows have been used in the past to justify intervention, for example in Kosovo… As a last resort, there needs to be military intervention." (UK government "restricted policy", draft Final report, 5 February 2003)
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