Friday, January 7, 2005
Good for Powell and company. The UN is in, but we'll be watching the money:
U.N. takes charge of effort to help tsunami victims / The Washington Times INSIDER
The Bush administration has pledged at least $350 million, a figure that does not include millions of dollars being spent each day to deploy the U.S. military on relief operations in the region.
Australia, which made the largest single pledge of more than $800 million, said yesterday it prefers to deal directly with Indonesia and other affected countries in disbursing its aid.
"That is a much better outcome than pushing money through international organizations," Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told CNN in an interview.
Mr. Powell said the United Nations would play "a lead role, but not the only lead role" in coordinating relief.
He pointedly noted that U.S. military personnel and private aid organizations have done virtually all of the relief work to date around Indonesia's Aceh province, with U.N. humanitarian organizations still struggling to establish a major presence...
(via Pawigoview)
Oh, and if you haven't been reading The Diplomad, a blog run by pseudonymous US diplomats who work somewhere in SE Asia, you really should be.
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