The UN responsibility for the cholera outbreak in Haiti 2016, para. 76
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On balance, the new approach is clearly a breakthrough, but difficult questions remain to be answered. They include:
(a) Why is it not possible to go beyond the acknowledgement of "moral responsibility" and actually accept the legal responsibility that patently applies in light of the facts as now understood?
(b) Why, without some new element in the picture, and in the absence of any apology or the recognition of legal responsibility, would Member States, which over recent years have been prepared to fund only 18 per cent of existing appeals, now decide to contribute more generously?
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Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights