10.1 |
Reconstruction: March 2003 to June 2004
•
wider UN
role on reconstruction;
•
political
process/fate of the Ba’ath Party: “Outline plan exists, not
agreed
with US”;
•
economy:
“Good contacts with US”;
•
reconstruction
of infrastructure: “Depends on damage. Beginning now.
Disagreements
with US on role of Iraqis”;
•
SSR: “Ideas
offered to US, but no plan”;
•
public
administration reform and service delivery: “No plan
yet?”
•
commercial
opportunities: “Needs wider policy agreement with US”;
•
legal
issues: “Some contact with US. No firm agreement. No
plan”;
•
disarmament:
“No agreement with US on extent of involvement of UN
inspectors”;
and
•
reintegrating
Iraq into the international community.91
143.
Sir Andrew
Turnbull wrote to Sir Kevin Tebbit on 31 March, seeking his and,
among
others, Sir
David Manning’s agreement on a slightly revised version of the
draft minute
produced by
Mr Bowen on 27 March.92
Sir Andrew
advised that the revised draft had
already
been agreed with Sir Michael Jay and
Mr Chakrabarti.
144.
The only
change to Mr Bowen’s draft was the substitution of the
word
“rehabilitation”
for “reconstruction” in the name of the group.
145.
Sir Andrew
Turnbull’s draft stated that as the UK moved towards the
post-conflict
phase, it
needed “a coherent policy on an enormous range of issues, including
the
role of the
UN, Iraqi political process, rehabilitation and reform, economic
and financial
issues
(including debt and reparations), security sector reform and
reducing our own
military
role”.
146.
Sir Andrew
Turnbull therefore proposed:
“… a new Ad
Hoc Ministerial Group on Iraq Rehabilitation reporting to you
[Mr Blair].
The Foreign
Secretary should chair … Its terms of reference would be: ‘to
formulate
policy for
the rehabilitation, reform and development of Iraq’.”
147.
The new
Ministerial Group would be supported by an officials group, led by
the
Cabinet
Office and including the Head of the IPU.
148.
The Inquiry
has not seen a final version of Sir Andrew Turnbull’s
minute.
91
Minute
Drummond to Bowen, 28 March 2003, ‘Iraq: Reconstruction
Agenda’.
92
Letter
Turnbull to Tebbit, 31 March 2003, ‘Iraq: Rehabilitation’ attaching
Minute [draft] Turnbull to Prime
Minister,
[undated], ‘Iraq: Rehabilitation’.
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