I'm not an expert on the situation in Iraq, but one of the challenges we have is the security of our staff. We've had staff members killed; we've had staff members kidnapped. That's quite serious, of course, not to mention the humanitarian agencies as well. Some of the partner organizations have faced some of the same challenges. We've had to reduce the availability of staff, sometimes moving staff out, declaring locations non-family duty stations. This all impacts the sort of assistance we can do.
In looking at the reality of a country like Iraq, which is hosting Syrian refugees but also has an IDP population, the sorts of things we can do in assisting refugees are different from what we can do with IDPs. For example, the refugee convention allows us, under article 35, to make signatory states responsible to us, to report on their treatment, to be responsible to us, and give us access and such. With IDPs, as I mentioned in my remarks, we first need the direction of the General Assembly to work. Oftentimes, the scope of activities we can undertake is limited in terms of what's possible, given that you're dealing with nationals inside their country of origin.
However, security would be the big concern for us. We have had to evacuate, I believe a number of staff at various points in time from Iraq.