Libya, our cup of tea

The Humanitarian Forum is working very hard with its partners to assess the situation and help civilian victims in Libya. On the 16th March we managed to organise at very short notice an international conference call to bring together many international actors from the Islamic and Non-Islamic worlds.

For the first time I found that everyone there was focusing on the quick delivery of humanitarian aid.  Who is right and who is wrong - this wasn’t our cup of tea. Everybody has their own idea of what a good cup of tea should be like: some like it with sugar, some without, some with milk, some without milk, some like green tea, some don’t etc. We didn’t want to analyse the right and wrong but we wanted to focus on the cries of help from the innocent civilians caught up in the middle.

Today, 24th March, I am in Cairo for a meeting hosted by The Humanitarian Forum and the League of Arab States to discuss how the international community and regional organisations can help.

Remember: Oil resources could dry up in 40 years’ time, but the welfare of  the Libyan people will always be our cup of tea.