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Ncc I W Eek Ly H Ig H Light EDITORIAL Issue 128 – September 18, 2008 Humanitarian Principles at stake in Georgia 3rd September 2008 The 170 member alliance of international development and humanitarian organizations that comprise InterAction believes that it was wrong to put the U.S. military in charge of the GHT American government's humanitarian response in Georgia. I Despite the insistence of senior U.S. officials that the U.S. Agency L for International Development (USAID) is leading the H humanitarian response, the reality on the ground continues to be influenced by President Bush's statement that it is a U.S. military- led humanitarian operation. InterAction members' ability to stay G I true to their humanitarian mission to provide assistance to people in need without distinction of any kind, without political criteria, and without support for a particular government or political H movement is at risk. Y L According to Sam Worthington, InterAction President & CEO, the problem with violating these principles is threefold. "First, the U.S. K military is not set up to know the needs of populations in distress E or work with them on a daily basis to address those needs. It is E providing assistance that is not appropriate to the situation and does not facilitate the local population's ability to care for itself." Some InterAction members have been pressed to accept and W deliver military rations that are inappropriate for children, I women, and the elderly. Several agencies refused to do so, or did so only because their usual source of food in emergencies, the World Food Program, was discouraged from delivering food in the area around Tbilisi, where most of the displaced people still reside. NCC Worthington continues, "Second, a military-led humanitarian response in a conflict zone tends to favor one side. If international relief agencies work with the military in this environment, their impartiality and ability to obtain access to all people in need are compromised. Linking the military with assistance in a conflict zone also lends credence to charges by some governments and non-state actors who claim the humanitarian action is being undertaken to further political and strategic objectives." While the safety of NGO personnel is not as yet an issue, it is in other parts of the world where the U.S. military is involved in humanitarian work, including Iraq and Afghanistan. Four International Rescue Committee workers were killed recently in Afghanistan trying to meet children's educational needs there. These were not random killings. The Taliban leadership in Afghanistan has said that it views NGO workers as spies. Worthington concludes, "Finally, military led U.S. humanitarian assistance hurts America's image abroad. It gives the impression that the United States does not care about the well-being of all people affected by conflict and that it is not particularly concerned about the development of vibrant civil societies capable of caring for themselves if given the opportunity. The Georgian government actually has considerable experience in disaster relief. It, and the numerous civilian humanitarian organizations working in Georgia, have the ability to involve the local population in those projects from which they will most benefit." InterAction members believe this situation can be remedied by ensuring that the military stick with its mandate while the U.S. government agency best equipped to support humanitarian responses around the world, USAID, is the leader during the next phase of the official U.S. response in Georgia - and in future relief efforts around the world. Independent relief agencies working in partnership with USAID and other civilian U.S. Government agencies, U.N. organizations, and the Red Cross have the expertise, credibility, and impartiality to lead the recovery and reconstruction phases of the response. While the U.S. military has a valuable role to play in humanitarian response, it is most effective when supplementing assistance available from civilian agencies rather than supplanting it. InterAction --------------------------------------- Sallaam, NCCI Team If a link in the NCCI newsletter is not working anymore, it may be because the article has been removed from the open access website. Generally, you can access these articles by clicking here. NCCI Weekly Highlight 2 Issue 128- 18/09/2008 ____________________________________ Iraq Context JInternationalJ Iraqi FM: SOFA draft text ready Syria appoints new ambassador to Source: PTV Iraq Document: Article Source : Xinhua Date: September 4, 2008 Document: Article Access: Open Date: Septmeber 17 , 2008 Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari has Access: Open said that Iraq and the US have prepared a Syria on Tuesday appointed a new final draft of a controversial security pact. ambassador to Iraq for the first time in "We have now a single text, a final draft," nearly three decades after the two Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari told neighbors severed diplomatic ties during journalists in Geneva on Saturday, "It is up the 1980s. Nawaf Abboud al-Sheikh Faris, a to the political leadership now to make a veteran politician who served as governor political decision," he said. The minister is in three provinces during the past 15 years, attending a global security conference in was sworn in before Syrian President Switzerland. Zebari said that if security Bashar al-Assad, the official SANA news continues to improve, this could see US agency reported. But the report did not and other foreign troops off the streets of say when Faris would take his post in Iraq. Iraqi cities from the middle of next year Syria and Iraq formally restored diplomatic and a complete withdrawal by 2011. ties in 2006 during a visit by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al- Muallem to Iraq, who Petraeus set to hand over Iraq role pledged to help restore security in the Source : AJ war-torn country. Syria has been accused Document: Article of not doing enough to stop weapons and Date: September 15, 2008 fighters from crossing into Iraq, a charge Access: Open denied by Damascus. General David Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Iraq, has arrived in Turkey to extend mandate for Baghdad to prepare to hand over his role to general Raymond Odierno, his second- military incursion into Iraq Source : MET (AFP) in-command. Robert Gates, the US Document: Article defence secretary, will preside over a Date: Septmeber 17 , 2008 ceremony on Tuesday to mark the Access: Open handover in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital. The Turkish government will ask parliament The new commander in Iraq must find to extend by one year its mandate to ways to keep improving security while order military strikes against separatist American troop levels are falling, he said Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, the on Monday. His remarks came hours deputy prime minister said Wednesday. after two car bombs exploded in the "We have decided to ask the parliament Baghdad district of Karrada, killing 12 again for a one-year authorization" when people and wounding nearly 40. Arriving lawmakers return from summer recess on for his eighth visit to Iraq since he took over October 1, Cemil Cicek, who is also the at the Pentagon in December 2006, Gates government spokesman, told reporters said the areas in which US forces would be after a cabinet meeting. "I believe the engaged in Iraq would continue to motion will be debated within the first few narrow. days of parliament reopening," he said without giving a date. NCCI Weekly Highlight 3 Issue 128- 18/09/2008 Iraq Crisis Report (IraqHAR) January. Renewing the law may be Source: Centre of Excellence on Disaster difficult due to the opposition party, the Management and Humanitarian Assistance Democratic Party of Japan, which controls Document: Weekly report the upper house of Parliament, advocates Date: September 17, 2008 ending operations and is against Access: Open extending military missions. Reuters Political: Due to Iraq’s improving security reported that Washington’s ambassador situation, Japan announced on Thursday to Tokyo urged Japan in July to continue (September-11) that by the end of the its participation in both Iraq and year it may withdraw its military air force Afghanistan, but both missions are mission that has flown supplies and troops controversial in Japan, which has between Kuwait and Iraq since 2006 in developed a strong pacifist tradition since support of US-led coalition forces, the World War II. Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. According to the Associated Press, Foreign Minister Juan Cole’s informed comment’s Masahiko Komura said the official schedule for ending Japan’s mission was excerpt still being discussed in conjunction with Source: Informed Comment – Juan Cole’s Web Blog. Iraq, the US and the UN. Although this Document: Selection of daily comments decision would end Japan’s military Date: September 12-18, 2008 involvement in Iraq, Defense Minister Access: Open Yoshimasa Hayashi suggested that it was Juan Cole is a Professor of Modern Middle time to shift priorities to Afghanistan, where East and South Asian History at the violence fueled by the Taliban insurgency University of Michigan. As such he brings has been increasing. CNN reports that the daily much needed expertise and Japanese Navy continues to participate in historical perspective to issues surrounding refueling missions in support of the US-led Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East. coalition in and around Afghanistan. Good reading to have a weekly review of However, the Afghan mission is also in the Iraq daily situation. question as the law currently authorizing it comes up for renewal in parliament in JNationalJ Iraqi deepwater port reopens Iraq re-entering the international Source: MET community," said Lt. Cmdr. Steve Document: Article Holloway, commanding officer of the HMS Date: September 9, 2008 Atherstone. Access: Open In a sign of improved security, the British Sadrists oppose anti-Qaeda fighters Royal Navy entered Iraq's only deepwater joining Iraqi forces port in Umm Qasr for the first time since the Source: Yahoo (AFP) U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
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