6.4 |
Planning and preparation for a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, mid-2001
to January 2003
•
International
Respect: an Iraq respected by its neighbours and the
wider
international
community.
•
Peace: a
unified Iraq within its current borders living at peace with itself
and with
its
neighbours.
•
Prosperity:
an Iraq sharing the wealth created by its economy with all
Iraqis.”
618.
The UK would
help by:
•
working to
bring an early end to sanctions;
•
supporting
Iraq’s reintegration into the region;
•
encouraging
generous debt rescheduling;
•
promoting
increased aid from the international community;
•
supporting
an international reconstruction programme, “if one is
needed”;
•
promoting
investment in Iraq’s oil industry;
•
encouraging
renewal of international education and cultural links;
•
promoting
institutional and administrative reform.
619.
A revised
‘Vision’ was prepared in late February 2003 and is described
in
Section
6.5.
620.
During
October, DFID produced two papers on Iraq: a paper on
humanitarian
contingency
planning for the AHGI and a desktop analysis of central and
southern
Iraq for
internal use in DFID.
621.
The paper
on humanitarian planning outlined possible
humanitarian
consequences
of military action and the likely emergency requirements.
It
warned that
DFID funds were likely to prove insufficient and that the
international
humanitarian
system was becoming overstretched.
622.
Before the 11
October meeting of the AHGI, Mr Alistair Fernie, Head of
DFID
Middle East
and North Africa Department, circulated a draft paper on
humanitarian
planning
not yet seen by Ms Short or other departments.317
The paper
outlined the
provisions
of OFF, considered the potential humanitarian consequences of
military action
and
possible responses, and summarised NGO and multilateral agency
contingency
623.
The draft
paper made two assumptions:
“a. That
the UN is able to mount a coherent response to the developing
situation in
Iraq –
before, during and after any conflict.
317
Letter
Fernie to Dodd, 11 October 2002, ‘Iraq: Humanitarian Contingency
Planning’.
318
Paper DFID,
11 October 2002, ‘Iraq: Potential Humanitarian
Implications’.
219