Introduction........................................................................................................................
3
UK
post-conflict objectives and planning assumption.......................................................
4
Humanitarian
assistance...................................................................................................
7
Coalition-building.............................................................................................................
18
Post-conflict
reconstruction and ORHA...........................................................................
22
Responsibility
for reconstruction...............................................................................
22
UK concerns
over participation in ORHA..................................................................
28
Decisions
to increase UK support for ORHA.............................................................
43
Reconstruction
strategy and funding.........................................................................
60
Concerns
over the scale of the reconstruction challenge and
ORHA’s response.....
62
Resolution
1483........................................................................................................
70
The return
to a ‘war footing’, June 2003..........................................................................
72
Advice on
the UK’s responsibilities as an Occupying Power....................................
83
The first
UK plan for reconstruction in the South, 12 June........................................
86
Making
CPA(South) a model.....................................................................................
92
Establishing
a British Fiefdom in the South, July 2003...................................................
99
CPA’s
‘Vision for Iraq’ and ‘Achieving the Vision’ implementation
plan...................
101
Sir Hilary
Synnott arrives in Basra, 30 July.............................................................
106
Responding
to deteriorating security.............................................................................
109
Pressure to
provide additional funding for reconstruction.......................................
122
Staffing
the CPA and new structures in London......................................................
131
First
cross-Whitehall Strategy for Iraq.....................................................................
134
Lobbying
for a level playing field for UK businesses...............................................
136
Madrid
Donors Conference, 23 and 24 October 2003..................................................
136
Priorities
for the last six months of Occupation.............................................................
141
Responding
to the new, shorter timetable for the transfer of
sovereignty...............
145
DFID’s
Interim Country Assistance Plan.................................................................
156
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