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Viewing cable 08STATE132020, REPORT: ARF MOVES FORWARD ON DISASTER RELIEF EXERCISE,

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08STATE132020 2008-12-17 14:30 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Secretary of State
VZCZCXRO8551
OO RUEHDT RUEHPB
DE RUEHC #2020/01 3521437
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O P 171430Z DEC 08
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM COLLECTIVE IMMEDIATE
INFO RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RHMFISS/JOINT STAFF WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RHHMUNA/HQ USPACOM HONOLULU HI PRIORITY
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 STATE 132020 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL ARF ASEAN EAID MARR MOPS RP
SUBJECT: REPORT: ARF MOVES FORWARD ON DISASTER RELIEF EXERCISE, 
WORKPLAN, AND CIVIL-MILITARY ISSUES 
 
REF: A. SECSTATE 122937 
 
1. SUMMARY: ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) members made important 
progress on key disaster relief initiatives at ARF's annual 
Inter-Sessional Meeting on Disaster Relief (ISM-DR) in Banda Aceh, 
Indonesia on December 4-6.  The United States and the Philippines 
undertook extensive discussions with a number of ARF members on their 
participation in the May 2009 ARF Disaster Relief Exercise.  In 
addition, delegations exchanged views on the development of important 
initiatives such as an ARF Disaster Relief Workplan and an ARF model 
legal agreement for the use and status of military forces involved in 
disaster relief.  Disaster relief remains among the most productive 
issue on ARF's agenda.  END SUMMARY. 
 
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KEY OUTCOMES 
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2. ARF DISASTER RELIEF EXERCISE (VDR): Along the margins and during 
the plenary of the ISM-DR, USDEL and the Philippines extensively 
discussed ARF members' participation in the May 2009 ARF Disaster 
Relief Exercise in the Philippines (Ref A).  Specifically, USDEL held 
substantive discussions with China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, 
Indonesia, Canada, the European Union, and Papua New Guinea (reported 
septel to country desks and embassies).  Overall, participation and 
interest from ARF nations, particularly military participation, is 
growing in advance of the January 19-28 planning meetings.  EAP/RSP 
will continue to closely work with State, DoD, and embassies to 
clarify ARF participation in the exercise, termed Voluntary 
Demonstration of Response (VDR), and associated planning events. 
 
3. ARF HADR WORKPLAN: In part due to U.S. financial assistance to the 
ARF Unit of the ASEAN Secretariat, the Secretariat presented a draft 
workplan for ARF's efforts in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster 
Relief (HADR).  Designed to more effectively focus, organize, and 
strengthen ARF's HADR efforts, the workplan will continue to be 
developed leading up to its endorsement at the July 2009 Ministerial 
meeting.  Based on the recommendations of the delegations of 
Australia, the United States, and others, the workplan identified 
disaster management/emergency response capacity-building and disaster 
risk reduction as two key, short-term areas of focus for ARF's HADR 
efforts. 
 
4. MILITARY AND CIVIL DEFENSE ASSETS (MCDA) STATUS TEMPLATE: 
Following the mandate given by ARF Foreign Ministers in July 2008 in 
Singapore to explore the feasibility of the proposal, ISM-DR 
participants briefly discussed the development of an ARF model legal 
agreement on the use and status of MCDA.  As this concept progresses, 
ARF would develop the text of a model agreement that ARF nations 
could legally activate on an individual and bilateral basis between 
assisting nations and the affected state in the event of a disaster 
requiring foreign MCDA.  USDEL presented its views on the concept. 
The presentation received largely positive, but limited agreement on 
the utility of developing the agreement.  Along the margins, USDEL 
met with Indonesian Foreign Ministry (DEPLU) and a disaster relief 
agency representative to further discuss the concept.  In principle, 
the Indonesian representatives agreed on the utility of developing a 
model ARF agreement.   Furthermore, they suggested that the ARF 
multilateral text could lead to the development of more extensive 
-bilaterally-based arrangements.  Indonesia suggested that the 
development of these multilateral and bilateral arrangements, similar 
to temporary Status of Forces Arrangements (SOFAs), could be branded 
under a different name such as Memorandums of Understanding on HA/DR 
Missions.  State and DoD will help develop this concept further with 
ARF, particularly through the ARF VDR Exercise and the early April 
ARF Seminar on Legal Regulations in Disaster Relief Military 
Operations hosted by China. 
 
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REMAINING AGENDA ITEMS 
---------------------- 
 
5. ARF HADR STRATEGIC GUIDANCE and STANDBY ARRANGEMENT SYSTEM: 
Australia continued to press for efforts by ARF members on further 
refining the ARF HADR Strategic Guidance document and ARF's draft 
concept for a standby arrangement system continued to stall.  The 
document is intended to provide guidance to senior regional disaster 
relief civil and military policymakers.  The meeting discussed next 
steps for the document including testing and validating the Strategic 
Guidance through future tabletop or field exercises.  (Note: This 
initiative was extensively discussed at a smaller working group on 
December 4th of the ISM-DR Shepherds.) Furthermore, it appears that 
the concept for the development an ARF Standby Arrangement System may 
be put on hold for some time.  That proposal's potential relationship 
to the ASEAN Standby Arrangement System and Operating Procedures 
 
STATE 00132020  002 OF 002 
 
 
(ASEAN SASOPs) still remains unclear to those in ASEAN and more 
broadly in ARF. 
 
6. EXISTING ASEAN AND GLOBAL COOPERATION ON DISASTER RELIEF: Various 
government and non-government representatives briefed ARF on the 
existing regional and global HADR work, both regionally and globally. 
 Discussions and/or presentations distributed on the following topics 
included: 
 
-- ARF Workshop on Stabilization and Reconstruction Issues, September 
10-12, 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. 
-- ARF Desktop Exercise on Disaster Relief, May 1-2, 2008 in Jakarta, 
Indonesia 
-- 13th Tokyo Defense Forum "International Cooperation in Disaster 
Relief," October 21-24, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan 
-- 3rd Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, 
December 2-4, 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 
 
Ongoing and emerging global and regional HADR efforts discussed 
included: 
--The Australia-Indonesia Disaster Reduction Facility just 
established in Jakarta, Indonesia. 
--EU Crisis Response and Prevention Framework Management system. 
--Aceh, Indonesia Strategy National Action Plan 
--UNOCHA Disaster Relief Operations and Standby Arrangements 
--World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction 
--UN International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction and the 
2005-2015 Hyogo Framework for Action. 
--European Commission Early Warning System 
 
7. POC INFORMATION: POC for further questions, comments, or to obtain 
more background and ISM-DR meeting documents and briefs is: EAP/RSP 
Kevin Sheives, sheiveskw@state.gov, 202-647-1217.  For additional 
background on ARF and U.S. participation in ARF, please visit the 
State Dept Intranet Site at 
http://eap.state.gov/EAPOffices/RSP/ARF.cfm 
 
8.  COMMENT: Disaster relief has emerged as a key topic for ARF to 
make substantive, concrete contributions to regional security.  The 
United States and other like-minded countries are seeking to focus 
its agenda where it can bring added value to the panoply of existing 
regional and global efforts (ASEAN, APEC, among many others).  For 
now, ARF's HADR efforts will focus on developing civil-military 
interoperability, linking many of these ongoing regional HADR 
efforts, and potentially disaster risk reduction. 
RICE