56TH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY THOMPSON INVITATION

UNCLAS SANAA 001076 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: TBIO OTRA YM SUBJECT: 56TH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY THOMPSON INVITATION DELIVERED REF: STATE 123459 (U) On May 12, Pol/econoff delivered reftel invitation for Secretary Thompson's lunch for representatives from the board SIPDIS of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria to Acting Minister of Health Abdel Kader Munibari. Munibari said that he plans to attend the assembly, if he is (as we expect) reappointed to the new Cabinet now being formed. He looks forward to meeting with Secretary Thompson again. He recalled that in 2001 they were seated together at the World Health Assembly gathering, and mentioned that he had later sent the Secretary a book on Yemen. Munibari and delegation plan on arriving in Geneva on May 17. HULL