Identifier
Created
Classification
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04DUBLIN1517
2004-10-08 09:53:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Dublin
Cable title:  

IRELAND'S RESPONSE TO ISG REPORT ON IRAQ WMD

Tags:  MARR PREL KPDD 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L DUBLIN 001517 

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/07/2014
TAGS: MARR PREL KPDD
SUBJECT: IRELAND'S RESPONSE TO ISG REPORT ON IRAQ WMD

REF: SECSTATE 216020

Classified By: POLITICAL ECONOMIC COUNSELOR MARY YOUNG FOR REASONS 1.4.
(B) AND (D)

C O N F I D E N T I A L DUBLIN 001517

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/07/2014
TAGS: MARR PREL KPDD
SUBJECT: IRELAND'S RESPONSE TO ISG REPORT ON IRAQ WMD

REF: SECSTATE 216020

Classified By: POLITICAL ECONOMIC COUNSELOR MARY YOUNG FOR REASONS 1.4.
(B) AND (D)


1. (C) On October 7, Post delivered reftel talking points to
Paul Gunning, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Deputy
Regional Director for the Gulf and North America, after
having discussed the ISG Report over the phone with him on
October 6. Gunning said that the report reinforced the GOI's
long-standing position that more information was required to
determine the nature and extent of Iraq's WMD programs. He
noted that, before the war, the GOI had wanted to give
inspectors more time to provide answers to unanswered
questions left over from the incomplete UN weapons
inspections of the 1990s. Gunning related the GOI's hope
that the ISG Report would shed more light on these questions.
DALY