{"id":345041,"date":"2010-02-18T11:47:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22648"},"modified":"2010-02-18T11:47:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:47:22","slug":"u-n-rejects-%e2%80%98militarization%e2%80%99-of-afghan-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/345041","title":{"rendered":"U.N. Rejects \u2018Militarization\u2019 of Afghan Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/18\/world\/asia\/18aid.html?ref=global-home\">NYT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Senior <a title=\"More articles about the United Nations.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/u\/united_nations\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">United Nations<\/a> officials in <a title=\"More news and information about Afghanistan.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/afghanistan\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Afghanistan<\/a> on  Wednesday  criticized <a title=\"More articles about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/n\/north_atlantic_treaty_organization\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">NATO<\/a> forces for what one referred to as \u201cthe militarization of humanitarian  aid,\u201d and said United Nations agencies would not participate in the  military\u2019s reconstruction strategy in Marja as part of its current  offensive there.\u201cWe are not part of that process, we do  not want to be part of it,\u201d said Robert Watkins, the deputy special  representative of the secretary general, at a news conference attended  by other officials to announce the United Nations\u2019  Humanitarian Action  Plan for 2010. \u201cWe will not be part of that military strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The  American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. <a title=\"More articles about Stanley A. McChrystal.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/m\/stanley_a_mcchrystal\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Stanley A.  McChrystal<\/a>, has made the rapid delivery of governmental services,  including education, health care and job programs, a central part of his  strategy in Marja, referring to plans to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NYT: Senior United Nations officials in Afghanistan on Wednesday criticized NATO forces for what one referred to as \u201cthe militarization of humanitarian aid,\u201d and said United Nations agencies would not participate in the military\u2019s reconstruction strategy in Marja as part of its current offensive there.\u201cWe are not part of that process, we do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}