Meeting. Okay. Board members. We have the minutes in front of us. I assume there is no Public Comment on this item. Seeing none, comment is closed. Ill entertain a moment to approve the minutes . All those in favor say aye . Any opposed . Item 5. Communications, i have none. Item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business. Board members, a new year, perhaps new business . Dire director heminger happy new year. We all received a copy of the review last month i believe. One thing i noticed, i think it does matter in the real world, the fta is hitting us on the question of how many buses we have spare. This is an issue that im sure many operators struggle with around the country. In this case, what they suggest is Something Like a 20 spare ratio. We have 40 . Double. And obviously, it probably has something to do with the fact that were not putting out the full service, but is it really that big of a gap, that that lack of full service entails . I thought it would be good get a report
More than 103. 00 and 4. 00 star generals from over 70 countries with which we entertain regular contacts but also which are engaged in their day to day life into military operations so its an exchange of experience and they had a classical exchange a very Practical Exchange of experts and this is the 1st time that this workshop is being held in russia where Russias Defense Ministry acting as the dance partner and i assume there are lots of people and cultures who dont like Russias Defense Ministry as an entity let along and contact in arizona such as syria have you experienced any pushback on holding this specific event in this country i. C. R. C. Has no likes and dislikes of ministries and im sure youre in dealing with the low internal intrigues and well we do have we appreciate the contacts with militaries of defense with armed forces thats the core activity of i. C. R. C. And we have been very appreciative for after some explanations also of the last 2 years to have agreement from
Are what do the classical principles of International Humanitarian law distinction proportionality precaution mean when you are confronted with urban contexts so for fear with densely Populated Areas in which you use modern technology modern weapons and what are you are awfully geishas to precaution and its obvious that i see or see as the advocate for protection of civilians may not always have the same. Appreciation and the same exactly according to judge military operations us military story so its really about this dialogue between the humanitarian protection perspective and the military necessity perspective now there has been no one whos been lambasted more for supposin disregard total disregard of the humanitarian law down the syrian authorities and i take it. From some of your interviews that this phrase total disregard may not be accurate in describing the stance of the of the Syrian Government in fact i know that the i. C. R. C. Has done a study looking specifically into wher
That we have seen recently in yemen in iraq in syria in all the context in the middle east is for instance urban warfare and so one of the Big Questions today also in the experiences of the past couple of years is always what are what to the classical principles of International Humanitarian law distinction proportionality precaution mean when you are confronted with urban contexts of warfare with densely Populated Areas in which you use modern technology modern weapons and what are your obligations to precaution and the obvious that i see or see as the advocate for protection of civilians may not always have the same. Appreciation and the same exactly. He coordinates to judge military operations us military story so its really about this dialogue between the humanitarian protection perspective and the military necessity perspective now there has been no one whos been lambasted more for supposin disregard total disregard of the humanitarian law down the syrian authorities and i take it
Getting and welcome your chin the weekly here on out. The syrian army has begun moving to the north of the country where turkeys carrying out an offensive against the kurds damascus media added that the army will quote confront turkish aggression on syrian territory of the report suggests the syrian army has already entered the town of man bitch damascus is also reportedly planning to retake the town of kabbani within the next 48 hours just learned this professor at the university of oklahoma scholars of International Studies and director of the u. S. Center for middle east studies told us the regions rich resources are crucial for damascus. Well i think were going to were seeing a scramble for the northeast of syria in the same way that there was a scramble during the collapse of isis and. The resort. This is the area are going to be the 1st to be taken as we saw with the oil fields around areas or and i think what were going to see is the Syrian Government is going to try to go acros