1.  He said government officials are also concerned that such a scenario would place enormous demands on the US military to conduct humanitarian emergency response operations abroad.

2.  Parmer lives in Washington, where he is assistant administrator for humanitarian response at the Agency for International Development.

3.  Annan has convened the session to boost the U.N. humanitarian response at a time when the organization says its operations are running dangerously short of funds.

4.  But they conceded the humanitarian response has been inadequate.

5.  Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen will discuss the humanitarian response to the war in Afghanistan with Italian officials in Rome on Wednesday.

6.  But he noted that the Council was currently considering proposals from UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali for a rapid humanitarian response.

7.  Despite the devastation of Goma, several people said they would prefer the international humanitarian response targetted the town itself, rather than two planned camps near Gisenyi.

8.  The United Nations launched Thursday on the Internet an information system aimed at improving the humanitarian response to conflicts and natural disasters in the world.

9.  The lava flattened tens of thousands of buildings in Goma and prompted a massive international humanitarian response.