10.1 |
Reconstruction: March 2003 to June 2004
551.
The Action
Plan defined objectives, indicators and activities (ranging from
sending
secondees
to the CPA to joint UK-Iraqi patrolling in Basra) in nine
areas:
•
political
process;
•
strategic
communications;
•
public
administration;
•
law and
order;
•
needs of
the vulnerable;
•
repairs to
public infrastructure;
•
oil
industry;
•
economic
management; and
•
medium term
needs assessment.
552.
The statement
of progress on rehabilitation, which had been produced by
“officials
in London,
in liaison with colleagues in Iraq”, listed key issues, “current
facts”, “UK
inputs” and
“next steps” in six areas:
•
security;
•
public
infrastructure;
•
public
administration;
•
humanitarian
relief;
•
macro-economic
issues; and
•
the
political process.295
553.
Ministers
endorsed the draft Action Plan and agreed that they should
receive
weekly
statements of progress, with baselines added.296
554.
The Annotated
Agenda for the AHMGIR stated that Iraq faced a range
of
environmental
problems as a result of successive conflicts, poor
environmental
management
under Saddam Hussein, and limited regional co-operation on
natural
resource
management.297
Ministers
were invited to agree that:
•
Environmental
reconstruction and sustainable development issues should
be
factored
into UK, Coalition and international policy towards
Iraq.
•
The UK
should support the work of the UN Environment Programme
(UNEP),
including
by considering part-funding their post-conflict
assessment.
•
The UK
should tackle UXO and DU on the basis of the scale of risk posed to
the
Iraqi
population.
295
Minute Dodd
to Cannon, 4 July 2003, ‘Iraq: Rehabilitation’.
296
Minutes, 3
July 2003, Ad Hoc Group on Iraq Rehabilitation
meeting.
297 Annotated
Agenda, 3 July 2003, Ad Hoc Group on Iraq Rehabilitation
meeting.
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