we have the un appeals which need a lot more assistance to bring those appeals up to 100 percent. we are in the depth of a winter right now which has made this more urgent and timely. we have the frontline states that are struggling with the influx of syrian refugees turkey lebanon and jordan. so we need to work closely with them to give them the kind of support necessary to ensure that these demographic changes that they are experiencing in their countries are not in the end destabilizing to the stability and security. and then very importantly is the humanitarian assistance that will follow in trace of the counteroffensive when that ultimately kicks off. it can be argued that the clearing operation we will be important to remove dash out of the population centers and the police will secure the population. but we we will find these people have lived under indescribable conditions and so our ability to marshal and quickly apply the humanitarian assistance necessary to the female populations two more broadly the liberated populations to the internally displaced persons that will co

we have the un appeals which need a lot more assistance to bring those appeals up to 100 percent. ..>> >> will one with us the bell populations and more broadly the liberated populations choose the internally displaced persons that come home as we clear the population centers supporting their return to their home the necessary human dictation -- humanitarian assistance like water and also reconstruction. this is a huge bill and a huge regional undertaking and it should be to everyone's satisfaction nor to optimism that many members of the coalition have been very clear with their willingness to support the broader effort for their region and the front-line states and the number of other coalition members put their hands in the air to be leaders of ban supporters to that very important effort that follows closely on the heels of the operation to move data by iraq. it is a multifaceted, multilayer a complex issue but in the end they humanitarian peace is the death blow is what they will experience. >> with a question from the chairman indicated complexities of the no-fly zone and i wou

appeal of radicalization? in september, president obama convened the un security council assembly, you might remember and led inhe passage of a resolution committing countries to take on the scourge of foreign fighters, foreign terrorist fighters, but more needs to be done than what has already been done. leader after bitter explained that it is not enough to take on these networks of extremists that wish to do us harm. we also have to take on the ideology that attracts fighters from all around the world to join them. this meeting is a continuation of that effort. over the next three days we'll hear from leaders from government, from civil society from communities in nearly 70 countries around the world in this three-day conference, about how they believe we can make good on the collective commitment to build from the ground up here. and i'd like to thank again those from belgium and the netherlands who are dealing with the most recent manifestations of this challenge. we asked you both to be here today because you've been active and innovative. i just had a chance to meet with the european council and parliame

appeals? it seems the majority of our assistance actually goes to the un and the limiting partners. also while i was confident the un security council passed resolutions calling upon all parties to allow delivery of humanitarian assistance and authorizing the you in -- the un to carry out assistance across the conflict lines, that is a fanciful notion to assume the spillage or and actors are going to adhere to those resolutions. if they pass the u.s. has -- since they passed the u.s. has been going into the most difficult to reach areas of syria. how are these resolutions being enforced? we are seeing reports isil and others have gotten some of this assistance or that limiting partners are forced to go through middlemen to get to some of these most dangerous areas. do we have an idea of how much of our assistance is being co-opted by these belligerent actors or going through middlemen? what kind of visibility do we have? how can we ensure the billions of dollars we are providing our reaching the intended recipients and not falling into the wrong hands? do we have any oversight into