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Viewing cable 08GENEVA758, IFRC: STRUGGLING WITH NEW APPROACH TO MIGRATION

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08GENEVA758 2008-09-08 12:23 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY US Mission Geneva
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 GENEVA 000758 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR PRM/MCE/KPERKINS AND PRM/PIM/NKENNELLY 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM PREF EAID IFRC
SUBJECT: IFRC: STRUGGLING WITH NEW APPROACH TO MIGRATION 
 
REF: GENEVA 692 
 
1.  (SBU) Summary: The International Federation of the Red 
Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) recently appointed 
Thomas Linde to the newly created position of Special 
Representative on Migration.  Charged with the task of 
developing a policy document for the IFRC and the national 
Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Linde is struggling to 
pull together coherent guidelines for societies that often 
hold contradictory approaches and views as to how best the 
Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement can respond to the 
humanitarian challenges of international migration. 
Moreover, Linde is saddled with a Migration Reference Group 
(MRG) that is heavily tilted towards Europe in its geographic 
representation and a focus on Africa-to-Europe migration and 
he admits he is unlikely to meet his first deadline to have a 
policy framework document ready in time for the November IFRC 
Governing Board meeting.  Nevertheless, Linde seems excited 
by the challenge and has promised to take a pragmatic 
approach that will involve other national societies, such as 
the American Red Cross, in the policy debate.  End Summary. 
 
2.  (U) Refugee Officer (RefOff) met with Thomas Linde, 
recently appointed as Special Representative of the Secretary 
General on Migration for the International Federation of the 
Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).  Linde comes to 
this newly created position having most recently served as 
Head of the UN Mission in Sudan (2005-2007).  He has an 
extensive professional background within the Red Cross and 
Red Crescent Movement and worked on asylum issues with the 
Swiss government earlier in his career.  Linde took up his 
new duties on July 1.  (Note: A more detailed description of 
Linde's professional background is included reftel.  End 
note.) 
 
Crafting a Policy Framework 
--------------------------- 
 
3.  (SBU) Linde said his main task in the coming months is to 
prepare a policy framework for the IFRC that will guide the 
national societies working on international migration.  Linde 
said that he is technically required to have such a framework 
document ready for the next IFRC Governing Board meeting in 
November, but believes he will likely have his document ready 
only by the time of the spring 2009 Governing Board meeting. 
He said that many national societies have different and often 
contradictory approaches to the migration issue and that he 
will need to hone these views into a single, practical set of 
guidelines for all national societies.  He acknowledged that 
many past IFRC policy documents have proven to not be so 
useful and recognizes that he will not be able to impose his 
product on the national societies.  At the same time, Linde 
highlighted that the request for a Migration Policy grew out 
of the regional discussions held by the national societies 
and he is confident that he can strike the right balance. 
 
4.  (SBU) RefOff asked Linde if he could elaborate on the 
type of activities he envisioned national societies 
conducting, noting that the U.S. believes IFRC might be 
stepping outside of its traditional mandate in taking up 
international migration as a issue for the organization. 
Linde underlined that IFRC's roll is not to interpret an 
auxiliary role for national societies nor does IFRC wish to 
establish a framework that would encourage national societies 
 
GENEVA 00000758  002 OF 003 
 
 
to take on a migration management role for governments.  He 
cited, as an example, the Canadian Red Cross, which conducts 
migrant detention visits in Canada.  Although he believes 
this is a positive example of cooperation between one 
national society and its government, he believes some 
national societies are so close to their governments that he 
would not want to see these societies conducting detention 
visits. 
 
5.  (SBU) RefOff noted however that the Council of Delegates 
resolution on International Migration, passed in November 
2007, calls on national societies to provide services to 
vulnerable migrants "throughout the entire migratory cycle," 
including return and reintegration.  RefOff stated that this 
seemed to be a very broad statement and explained that the 
U.S. believes other organizations, particularly the 
International Organization for Migration (IOM), are better 
placed to work with governments on many activities.  Linde 
affirmed that he had no intention of pitting IFRC and the 
national societies in competition with organizations such as 
IOM, but would instead focus on the real humanitarian needs 
that migrants often suffer during the migration process. 
 
Migration Reference Group 
------------------------- 
 
6.  (SBU) Linde said the he will hold the first meeting of 
the Migration Reference Group (MRG) on September 24.  He 
stressed that IFRC President had appointed the members of the 
MRG before he came on board, noting that it is too big and 
unbalanced, but that it is too late for him to change the 
composition of the MRG (Note: MRG members are national Red 
Cross societies as outlined below).  He assured RefOff that 
the MRG was only a sounding board and that his office will 
establish the actual policy framework (Linde currently has 
one assistant working with him and he will soon add two more 
staff).  Linde also acknowledged that the American Red Cross 
(ARC) had expressed its dissatisfaction at not having been 
named to the MRG, and he readily admitted there is a real 
"danger of a European" slant in IFRC's approach as reflected 
in the current MRG membership.  Linde said he will open up a 
consultative dialogue with ARC and other important national 
societies alongside that of the MRG. 
 
7.  (U) Linde listed the following national societies as MRG 
members: 
 
-  The Americas:  Canada, Haiti, Ecuador. 
-  Africa: Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Somalia, Sudan. 
-  Europe: Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, France, UK. 
-  Asia: Australia, the Philippines. 
 
Coordination With the National Societies 
---------------------------------------- 
 
8.  (U) RefOff asked how Linde would carry out the regional 
consultative process as outlined in the Plan 2008-2009 
document.  Linde said that he will work directly with the 
newly established Zone Offices who in turn will coordinate 
with the national societies in their respective regions to 
help prioritize activities and input for the IFRC migration 
policy.  (Note: See reftel for the location of IFRC's Zone 
Offices.  End note.)  He also hopes the Zone Offices will set 
up migration sub-groups with the national societies to ensure 
 
GENEVA 00000758  003 OF 003 
 
 
continuity of the work.  However, he noted there will only be 
one regional consultative meeting before his policy document 
will be finalized.  This will be held in Johannesburg, South 
Africa, from October 19-22.  Linde confirmed there will be a 
Migration Working Group at the Conference. 
 
Comment 
------- 
 
9.  (SBU) Although the "Together for Humanity" declaration 
passed at the 30th International Conference last November 
highlighted international migration as a new policy focus 
area for the Movement, Linde is still struggling with the 
type of activities he imagines should form the backbone of 
that policy.  Despite his assurances to the contrary, it is 
not clear to us at this stage how he can shake loose from the 
"European" drive behind this initiative, which is mostly 
focused on Africa-to-Europe migration flows.  Nevertheless, 
Linde seems to be genuinely interested in hearing opposing 
views and is looking for ways to work constructively with 
important national societies left out of the process up to 
now, including the American Red Cross. 
TICHENOR