Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
03ABUDHABI1602
2003-04-02 13:35:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Abu Dhabi
Cable title:
TFIZ01: IRAQIS REFUSE PERMISSION TO UAE RED
how-tonull Diana T Fritz 05/24/2007 04:38:43 PM From DB/Inbox: Search Results Cable Text: CONFIDENTIAL SIPDIS TELEGRAM April 02, 2003 To: No Action Addressee Action: Unknown From: AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI (ABU DHABI 1602 - UNKNOWN) TAGS: EAID, PREL, PHUM, PGOV Captions: None Subject: TFIZ01: IRAQIS REFUSE PERMISSION TO UAE RED CRESCENT SOCIETY TO DELIVER AID TO REGIME-CONTROLLED AREAS Ref: None _________________________________________________________________ C O N F I D E N T I A L ABU DHABI 01602 SIPDIS CXABU: ACTION: POL INFO: RSO AMB DCM P/M ECON DISSEMINATION: POL CHARGE: PROG APPROVED: DCM:RAALBRIGHT DRAFTED: ECON:TEWILLIAMS CLEARED: ECON:CMC, POL:STWILLIAMS VZCZCADI958 OO RUEHC RUCNRAQ RUEKJCS RUMICEA RUEKJCS RUEHDE DE RUEHAD #1602 0921335 ZNY CCCCC ZZH O 021335Z APR 03 FM AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 9232 INFO RUCNRAQ/IRAQ COLLECTIVE IMMEDIATE RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC PRIORITY RUMICEA/USCINCCENT INTEL CEN MACDILL AFB FL PRIORITY RUEKJCS/JOINT STAFF WASHDC PRIORITY RUEHDE/AMCONSUL DUBAI PRIORITY 2986
C O N F I D E N T I A L ABU DHABI 001602
SIPDIS
STATE FOR IRAQ TASK FORCE, ALSO NEA/ARP, NEA/RA,
NEA/EX, NEA/IPA, AND IO/UNP
E.O. 12958: DECL 04/02/08
TAGS: EAID PREL PHUM PGOV IZ TC
SUBJECT: TFIZ01: IRAQIS REFUSE PERMISSION TO UAE RED
CRESCENT SOCIETY TO DELIVER AID TO REGIME-CONTROLLED
AREAS
REF: ABU DHABI 1512
C O N F I D E N T I A L ABU DHABI 001602
SIPDIS
STATE FOR IRAQ TASK FORCE, ALSO NEA/ARP, NEA/RA,
NEA/EX, NEA/IPA, AND IO/UNP
E.O. 12958: DECL 04/02/08
TAGS: EAID PREL PHUM PGOV IZ TC
SUBJECT: TFIZ01: IRAQIS REFUSE PERMISSION TO UAE RED
CRESCENT SOCIETY TO DELIVER AID TO REGIME-CONTROLLED
AREAS
REF: ABU DHABI 1512
1. (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for
reasons 1.5 (B) and (D).
2. (C) Sana'a Al-Kitbi (strictly protect),Secretary-
General of the UAE Red Crescent Authority, told us on
the afternoon of April 2 that all UAE Red Crescent
humanitarian relief activities in Iraq are on hold.
The reason is that the Iraqis have officially refused
permission to the UAE to deliver aid in regime-
controlled areas. Al-Kitbi said that as a result of
the Iraqi decision, the only place the UAE could
deliver its aid would be Umm Qasr and its environs.
(Note: The Red Crescent had been planning to deliver
aid across the country, focusing on the neediest
areas, many of which they judge to be in regime-
controlled territory. End note.) The entire issue of
humanitarian aid for Iraq has now become -- because of
Iraq's refusal to cooperate -- a matter of enormous
political sensitivity. RCA humanitarian aid shipments
must wait until the UAE leadership decides how best to
respond.
3. (C) Comment: Al-Kitbi had earlier told us that
while Baghdad might refuse aid from Saudi Arabia and
Kuwait, she was confident that the Iraqis would grant
permission for Emirati relief activities because of
the UAE's long and close association with the Iraqi
Red Crescent Society (see reftel). That assessment
appears to have been incorrect. The Ambassador has
requested an early appointment with MFA Minstate (and
RCA Chairman) Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayid, and will use
the opportunity of that meeting to press for the UAE
to move forward to deliver its much-needed aid to
those areas in Iraq where it will be safe for them to
do so -- noting that that area is expanding every day.
Wahba
SIPDIS
STATE FOR IRAQ TASK FORCE, ALSO NEA/ARP, NEA/RA,
NEA/EX, NEA/IPA, AND IO/UNP
E.O. 12958: DECL 04/02/08
TAGS: EAID PREL PHUM PGOV IZ TC
SUBJECT: TFIZ01: IRAQIS REFUSE PERMISSION TO UAE RED
CRESCENT SOCIETY TO DELIVER AID TO REGIME-CONTROLLED
AREAS
REF: ABU DHABI 1512
1. (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for
reasons 1.5 (B) and (D).
2. (C) Sana'a Al-Kitbi (strictly protect),Secretary-
General of the UAE Red Crescent Authority, told us on
the afternoon of April 2 that all UAE Red Crescent
humanitarian relief activities in Iraq are on hold.
The reason is that the Iraqis have officially refused
permission to the UAE to deliver aid in regime-
controlled areas. Al-Kitbi said that as a result of
the Iraqi decision, the only place the UAE could
deliver its aid would be Umm Qasr and its environs.
(Note: The Red Crescent had been planning to deliver
aid across the country, focusing on the neediest
areas, many of which they judge to be in regime-
controlled territory. End note.) The entire issue of
humanitarian aid for Iraq has now become -- because of
Iraq's refusal to cooperate -- a matter of enormous
political sensitivity. RCA humanitarian aid shipments
must wait until the UAE leadership decides how best to
respond.
3. (C) Comment: Al-Kitbi had earlier told us that
while Baghdad might refuse aid from Saudi Arabia and
Kuwait, she was confident that the Iraqis would grant
permission for Emirati relief activities because of
the UAE's long and close association with the Iraqi
Red Crescent Society (see reftel). That assessment
appears to have been incorrect. The Ambassador has
requested an early appointment with MFA Minstate (and
RCA Chairman) Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayid, and will use
the opportunity of that meeting to press for the UAE
to move forward to deliver its much-needed aid to
those areas in Iraq where it will be safe for them to
do so -- noting that that area is expanding every day.
Wahba