At 7pm the meeting was stopped so that Mr Lubbers could talk to Mr Major.
Both men apparently believe in the need to end the conflicts inside Afghanistan, which Mr Lubbers has termed 'insane'.
His prime minister, Ruud Lubbers, aspired to the presidency of the European Commission.
So on the summit's second day, its chairman, Ruud Lubbers, the Dutch prime minister, presented a greatly watered-down social chapter.
On Tuesday, Lubbers met with the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan and urged the Taliban to protect aid operations in Afghanistan.
Mr Lubbers also announced a new initiative for his agency, which does not usually help those displaced within their own country.
Mr Lubbers said some of them had only 15 or 20 asylum-assessors whereas 10 years ago they had no asylum systems at all.
Mr Lubbers said in the Guardian the UNHCR's assessment is that only a limited percentage of the people in Sangatte would prove to be refugees.
"It would be grave mistake, I think, to talk only in terms of attacks on terrorists and not to think about consequences for ordinary people, " Lubbers said.
The Home Office, while welcoming the offer of assistance, played down Mr Lubbers' intervention, insisting that it was a matter to be resolved between the two governments.
In terms of aid, Mr Lubbers said funding was one of the main reasons he had come and he wanted to convince the donors to put money into Afghanistan.
"I made it clear to the ambassador that we would appreciate that he does his utmost that our property and activities are respected there, " Lubbers told Reuters news agency.
Mr Lubbers, her successor, has a very different view.
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The Pakistani Government said General Musharraf had told Mr Lubbers he felt deeply about the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and called for a major relief effort to help the Afghans inside their own country.
Thinking (and the UNHCR's job) broadened under Ruud Lubbers, a former Dutch prime minister, who managed in his time (2001-2005) as head of the agency to breathe new life into some old buzzwords: repatriation, reintegration and rehabilitation.
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